Iceland Is So Inbred It Needs a Website to Avoid Incest

Gizmodo ^ | Feb 6, 2012

[ronnie raygun]

The Island of Dr Moreau

[alexander_busek]

the Russians do something similar, with your middle name being derived from your parent’s first name, but with last names being inherited from the father.

It's not actually a "middle name," though it comes between the first and surname.

You are referring to the so-called "patronym" (i.e. "father's name").

Thus, the full name of Anna, the daughter of Ivan Kerensky Sr., would be (until marriage) Anna Ivanova Kerenskaya. Her brother, Ivan Jr., would have the full name Ivan Ivanovitch Kerensky.

Those full names would be the ones appearing in their official papers, but one is hardly ever called by one's full name. Rather, it is considered polite and respectful to use the first name AND patronym (but not the surname) in addressing another person with whom one is not (yet) on a first-name basis. Honorifics and titles like "Professor" or "Colonel" are then dropped. Only in adversarial and confrontational situations would one be addressed only by the surname.

Regards,

[rightly_dividing]

It was common for a ship to show up off the coast of Ireland or Scotland. Officials would step off dockside and read the names of a list of families who were to report for transportation to America.

I was talking to my elderly uncle after my father passed away about my dad's temperment. Uncle told me that our family had been booted out of the old country for meaness. I guess there may have been some truth to that statement.

[count-your-change]

I’m sure there will be many willing to introduce new genetic material into the Icelandic genetic pool....all for the good Iceland, of course.

[Krankor]

Ha! Ha! That guy sounds like Ernest T. Bass.

[Neidermeyer]

[grey_whiskers]

Thanks, Slings.

Laz -- it appears that your services are urgently needed.

Cheers!

[brooklin]

From our Strange but True Department: West Virginia doesn’t allow first-cousin marriages.

How about siblings?

[grey_whiskers]

Weird Al Yankovic

(Listen all the way through...)

Chers!

[grey_whiskers]

The third solution is to reopen the closed US Navy Air station at Keflavik and ship in about 10,000 single American sailors, Marines, and Airmen ;)

Or, in a pinch, just se-men.

Cheers!

[Tainan]

Taiwan is the same way. Hell, I think everybody is 1st or 2nd cousins to everybody else here.

[dljordan]

“Somebody in West Virginia just slapped his forehead. ;^) “

And here I was thinking it was New Jersey.

[Slings and Arrows]

Strangely enough, the band is Swedish.

[Slings and Arrows]

Laz can’t reply to your ping - he’s too busy learning Icelandic.

[Slings and Arrows]

Roll Tide.

[martin_fierro]

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[sten]

i'm pretty sure we have more then a few in the US willing to help with the problem...

(i know this one will rank high with freepers ;)

[grey_whiskers]

Just D@mn, martin.

I Googled "Icelandic Hotties" or somesuch for a satiric (satyric?) picture for this thread, and that's the first hit I got too...

Cheers!

[Monkey Face]

WellDUH! LOL!

[GnL]

She’s my cousin? Who cares!