This may interest you.

http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/dialects/nis.html

http://www.caithness.org/community/a...ll/wordies.htm

There are a lot of Viking links up here which you see in the place names. Thuso means Thors River and we also do this... Viking Procession and Ship Burning - Thurso Da Doonie Day 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJbdRE2KRt4