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flyawave:
I knew a sky- so and so who married a so and so walker
Dat skywalker
Saras:
--- Quote from: Corunes on April 21, 2013, 01:48:29 PM ---In Iceland, rarely do people take the last name of their spouse, male or female. This is because you take the name of your (usually) male parent and stick 'dottir' or 'son' to the end depending on your gender. Therefore a girl named Hanna Jonsdottir is, surprise, the daughter of a guy named Jon, and her brother's last name would be Jonsson.
Not surprisingly, many an Icelander has had trouble traveling abroad with their families, since usually everyone has a different last name.
(By the way, everyone's listed in the phone book by their first names... including the Prime Minister)
--- End quote ---
That's not completely unique either. In slavic tradition, a trinary naming system is used and the name of the father does come into play. In my birth certificate, that was still issued in the Slavic tradition I'm referred to as Šarūnas Žukauskas son of Arvydas
Dex_Belle:
I am at a point where I have no idea if I am failing or passing my written communications class. Since I don't know how the final grade will be calculated, I could either be sitting at a D, which is failing, or a C.
Corunes:
--- Quote from: Saras on April 21, 2013, 04:21:05 PM ---
--- Quote from: Corunes on April 21, 2013, 01:48:29 PM ---In Iceland, rarely do people take the last name of their spouse, male or female. This is because you take the name of your (usually) male parent and stick 'dottir' or 'son' to the end depending on your gender. Therefore a girl named Hanna Jonsdottir is, surprise, the daughter of a guy named Jon, and her brother's last name would be Jonsson.
Not surprisingly, many an Icelander has had trouble traveling abroad with their families, since usually everyone has a different last name.
(By the way, everyone's listed in the phone book by their first names... including the Prime Minister)
--- End quote ---
That's not completely unique either. In slavic tradition, a trinary naming system is used and the name of the father does come into play. In my birth certificate, that was still issued in the Slavic tradition I'm referred to as Šarūnas Žukauskas son of Arvydas
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Right, I know it's not completely unique o: that was how people used to get their last names, either after their father or their occupation... my last name happens to be Fernandez, and that means "Son of Fernando"; somewhere up my family tree I have a Fernando, but the name just got passed down. Icelanders are just very stuck in the past >_>
I was more commenting on the fact that Icelanders don't change last names... for them, it's odd unless they live abroad and marry a foreigner. It's a cause of miscommunication there, lol. I knew a woman who was from England, but her father was Icelandic, and her last name was "Thorsson" because that was her father's last name... she got many an odd look from Icelanders because she basically referred to herself as a boy, with a girl's name. lol
JoonasTo:
Yeah, the same with all the Jönssons/Erikssons in Swedens. ;D
Russians still use that naming system after father too, just not as a last name but as a middle name. There are the odd Finns with the middle names like that too.
Some people do take on the surname of the wife if the wife is from a blueblood family or otherwise notable.
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