Re: Asian migration to Scandinavia

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P.S. to Rick: what I do know about the McMillans (and I don't know
why some spell it MacMillan, and whether they are related (cf. Harold
MacMillan, former PM of Great Britain) is that their name is from <mac
maolain> which means "son of the priest". Campbell so strongly
suggests <campobellum> , as though it were a Roman name meaning
"battlefield" , but perhaps it's more something like "cambail" or
another Irish word of some sort?

AJ

Campbell is cam beul "broken mouth, bent mouth" --"wry mouth" is the way it's normally translated. Compare to Cameron < cam sron "broken, bent, wry nose". I'm using the Gaelic forms I've seen used with these names, so they may be outdated or misspelled.

In any case, the families from the Hebrides, Kintyre, Sutherland, and obviously Orkney and Shetland will have Norwegian ancestry. Galloway as well, but related to the settlements in Cumbria/Cumberland. The Lowlands families would likely have some Danish ancestry given their proximity to Northumberland.

There are plenty of clan histories on line but as Brian pointed out in reference to William the Conqueror's ancestor Rollo, genealogy is often a "wishful" discipline.