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   From: smaill@SPAMinf.ed.ac.uk   
      
   "Anne Hildrum"  writes:   
      
   > 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   
      
   thanks for looking that up;   
   I didn't realise that the Scottish ancestor was that remote.   
      
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   > "Alan Smaill"  skrev i melding news:f   
   e4p9dnnpg.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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   >>> /Jan   
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