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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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following Icelandic tradition the woman does not take the mans name but keeps her FATHERS name.
Icelandic Names
Most Icelanders still follow the age old tradition
of using the first name of their father as the basis for their last name.
"Sonur" is added to the fathers name if the child is a boy, and
"dóttir" if the child is female.
Family names as such are not commonly used in Iceland,
and the question "Do you know Eiríksson?"
is really meaningless, as the definition is missing.
In the example below, the siblings are the children of Jóhann Már,
so the last names are Jóhannsson and Jóhannsdóttir, respectively.
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