XPost: soc.genealogy.nordic   
   From: anne.hildrum@chello.no   
      
   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"  skrev i melding news:fwe   
   p9dnnpg.fsf@collins.inf.ed.ac.uk...   
   > Jan  writes:   
   >   
   >> Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:30:55 GMT, Bob Jones ;   
   >> ;   
   >> :   
   >>   
   >>>Magnus.Moraberg@gmail.com 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 importance 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.   
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