The Vikings were from Shetland?

From visit.shetland.org.

”Shetland is where Scotland meets Scandinavia, it’s where the North Sea meats the Atlantic Ocean.” “This is where Shetland Ponies come from; and the Sweaters, and the Vikings.”

These lines met me at a tourist site on the Internet for Shetlands islands, a site I look at for an assignment of ethnology.

Interesting perspective. All other sources I've seen consider Scandinavia as the place where the Vikings came from. But this source says that they come from Shetland.

Shetland islands were indeed, just like Orkney island, a part of Scandinavia, emphasising the word *were*. Shetland islands stopped being a part of Scandinavia in 1471, instead the islands became a part of Scotland. Reason was that Scandinavia couldn't pay when Danish princess Margret was marrying the Scottish king James III. Scandinavia had to pa with the islands.

But okay, descendants of Scandinavians have been brought up there for generations, but still, it is a bit too much to claim that the Vikings came from Shetland. Almost laughable.