In 1997 when I visited Scotland, I came to a place in New Galloway, where the owner of a shop spoke plain Norwegian. He had worked with the Norwegian Televerket, something similar to British telecom in Bergen when he was younger.

When it comes to Norse, this language became the mother tongue of a son of Leod that settled down at the Isle of Skye in the Viking times. Today the clan is known as MacLeod. They spoke Norse in the family until the end of the 1800s.