Re: Norse and Scottish sound similar

"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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>>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.

Bob is right in that there was Scottish migration to the continent, and in

big numbers at that, and that Grieg's paternal ancestors were Scots.
However 
it doesn't really account for any similarity between the sound of Scottish

speakers and Scandinavians. Rather than Scots influencing Scandinavian 
speech it was much more the other way round. The long established language

of Lowland Scotland is called Scots. It derives originally from
Northumbrian 
which was a dialect of Anglo-Saxon. It was later heavily influenced by the

Anglo-Danish of the northern English Danelaw. Added to that the far
northern 
dialects of Scots are themselves superimposed on top of what was a Norn
(ie 
Norwegian) speaking base and are still heavily influenced by that former 
language. Even Scots who speak only Scottish Standard English are speaking
a 
Standard English influenced by the Scots language. It would be unusual if 
Scottish speakers didn't sound something like Scandinavian speakers. As
for 
Ulster well of course there is a dialect of Scots spoken in Ulster called 
Ulster Scots!

Allan