Re: Norse and Scottish sound similar

According to to Wikipedia, Alan seems to be partly right:

Edvard Grieg ble født i Bergen som oldebarn av skotten Alexander Greig som
hadde slått seg ned som handelsmann der på midten av 
1700-tallet og fornorsket navnet til Grieg

Edvard Grieg was born in Bergen as great grandchild of the Scottish
Alexander Greig who settled
as a merchant there in the middle of 1700 and changed his name to Grieg.

Anne

"Alan Smaill" <smaill@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Jan <address@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:30:55 GMT, Bob Jones <bobj@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> <z_zQj.5133$ko5.597@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> <soc.genealogy.nordic>:
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>>>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.
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> The composer's father spelt it "Greig", I believe.
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>> -- 
>> /Jan
>> <jan at jpharo dot net>
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> Alan Smaill