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Subject: [DNA-R1B1C7] Lochlan" was Norse "Rogaland
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:56:00 EDT



Norse scholars influenced by the work of Marstrander believe the name
"Lochlan" was a corruption of the Norse "Rogaland," a region of Norway from which
many of the Norse invaders of the western isles emigrated. Irish experts
(Woulfe and MacLysaght) indicate "Lochlan" was a Norse personal name, but there is
no support for this thesis in traditional Norse genealogies and if the name
did originate as a personal name amoung the Norse it did so in Ireland. Many
have suggested that the name "Lochlan" therefor indicates intermarriage with
the Norse and this may well have been the case, particularly in those families
which were amoung the first to adopt the name.



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