Per contesto stavamo parlando di uno dei miei personaggi originali, che è islandese. La mia amica è norvegese-americana e praticamente tutto ciò che riguarda la storia/cultura norrena è il suo interesse speciale, quindi mi fido della sua parola, ma questo va contro tutto ciò che ho letto e visto sui nomi islandesi, quindi ho dei dubbi.
Quindi, perché non chiedere semplicemente agli islandesi stessi: è vero che tutti voi avete gradualmente eliminato i cognomi patronimici e usate cognomi tramandati come nel resto del mondo?
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di NinjaEagle210
7 commenti
Your friend appears to be half-informed
Patronymic names are still very much the norm.
I would ask her for her reference on that.
Yeah, no. Patronymics are by far the most common last names. They’re slightly less common today than they were years ago mostly because of the greater rate of immigrants bringing new family names with them and passing them to their children, which is allowed.
Your friend is confusing patronymic names with family names.
The vast majority still uses patronymic last names, their fathers’ first name e.g. Jónsson/Jónsdóttir and Jónsbur for non binary people. Recently people have also been using the mother’s first name or even both names together.
What your friend is talking about that fell out of practice and had some strict rules for decades is family surnames that would be passed on as last names similar to how most of the western world does it. Some families have that tradition but they are a minority.
Roughly 5% of Icelanders have family names instead of patronyms, so your friend is talking out their ass, while still somehow referencing real things. They feel like chatgpt in that regard.
Tell your friend:
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This is nonsense, basically everyone has patronymic names. Even many people who also have family names combine it with the patronym.