Re: Norse and Scottish sound similar

Jan <address@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

> Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:30:55 GMT, Bob Jones <bobj@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>;
> <z_zQj.5133$ko5.597@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>;
> <soc.genealogy.nordic>:
>
>>Magnus.Moraberg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>>> I'm listening to this Norwegian band at the moment and their accents
>>> remind me of a Scottish or Ulster English accent. Or perhaps even
>>> Welsh or Gaelic. What do you think?
> (snip)
>>Very likely, a lot of Scots migrated to Norway e.g. Edvard Greig's
family.
>
> If that is an assumption based on the way the name is written, it
> could be of im****tance to know that it's written wrongly.
> The composer's family name is Grieg, not Greig.

The composer's father spelt it "Greig", I believe.


> -- 
> /Jan
> <jan at jpharo dot net>

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Alan Smaill