To: Slings and Arrows
I think I read that Iceland doesn’t have Family last names just Whatever-son if it is a boy and something else if it was a girl. If that is correct it would add to the difficulty
23 posted on
02/11/2012 10:35:38 PM PST by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Would you sing if someone sucked YOU up the vacuum cleaner hose?)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
I’ve heard that too. Probably a lot of folks named with the local equivalent of “John Johnson.”
25 posted on
02/11/2012 10:38:41 PM PST by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Knew some Eritrean people. The kids take the dad’s first name as their last name.
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