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A general question about scandinavian naming customs | |
| Numb nut User ID: 27582332  New Zealand01/21/2013 03:27 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1310161  Iceland01/21/2013 03:40 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hey all, not meaning to be dumb or anything, but a thought just hit my one remaining brain cell: Quoting: Numb nut 27582332 If Bjork is something or other (firstname) dottir, meaning daughter, and Nilsson means something like son of Nils, what do you call (say) son of someone who was also son of someone else? Like Nils NilssonNilsson? That wouldn't work, surely. Maybe Nils^2? Dunno, just wondering. Feel free to attack. :) I don't know what you mean by "also son of someone else", but the Icelandic custom of surnames being after the first name of the father is a very ancient Germanic custom only surviving in Iceland of all the Nordic nations. Someone called Nilsson in Sweden, for instance, had an ancestor called Nils probably some hundreds of years ago but it was at some time "frozen" as a surname, in line with the customs from the more southerly countries of Europe. |
