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As to surnames here in Norway, originally just first anmes were used, (possibly with an epithet like "the fat" King Olav "Digre" or "the one who made the bow-wood vibrate Einar "tambarskjelve") they were originally patronymica or matronymica just like in Iceland today, but when some first names...

Sirs, Not contributing to this bonfire of theological/ethnograpic disparaging: The self-naming of the dutch and deutsch simply means "people". Look up "tjod" in Icelandic or old Norse dictionaries. The Icelandic author Snorre Sturlason writing in Old Norseabout the known world right after...