SON OF A GUN!

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On Fri, 11/28/14, Freelance Traveller <xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com> wrote:

 Subject: [TML] Addendum to cultural note: Naming
 To: "The Traveller Mailing List" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Friday, November 28, 2014, 10:06 AM

 The patronymic system described as in
 use in Iceland in my earlier
 missive has the potential for "collisions" of names, much
 like the
 Jewish system, and such collisions are generally resolved
 the same way -
 that is, Olafur Eriksson, son of Erik Einarsson, would be
 called Olafur
 Eriksson Einarssonar to distinguish him from Olafur
 Eriksson, son of
 Erik Hjalmarsson, who would be called Olafur Eriksson
 Hjalmarssonar.

 Prior to Christianity becoming the predominant religion in
 Iceland,
 bastardy was not considered shameful; it was merely a fact
 of (lack of)
 knowledge of parentage. In cases where the father was not
 known, it was
 not unusual for a matronymic to be used (e.g., Hjalmar
 Helguson), but
 another option was also seen: The use of the
 patronymic/matronymic form
 of a deity's name: Magnus Þorsson, Helga Freyasdottir. The
 deitic
 patronymic/matronymic was also used for foundlings.

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