Als Kontext sprachen wir über einen meiner Originalcharaktere, einen Isländer. Meine Freundin ist norwegisch-amerikanische Abstammung und ihr besonderes Interesse gilt so ziemlich allem, was mit der nordischen Geschichte/Kultur zu tun hat. Deshalb vertraue ich ihrem Wort, aber das steht im Widerspruch zu allem, was ich über isländische Namen gelesen und gesehen habe, also bin ich im Zweifel.
Warum also nicht einfach die Menschen in Island selbst fragen: Stimmt es, dass Sie alle auf Patronym-Nachnamen verzichten und wie im Rest der Welt überlieferte Familiennamen verwenden?
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Von NinjaEagle210
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Your friend appears to be half-informed
Patronymic names are still very much the norm.
I would ask her for her reference on that.
Yeah, no. Patronymics are by far the most common last names. They’re slightly less common today than they were years ago mostly because of the greater rate of immigrants bringing new family names with them and passing them to their children, which is allowed.
Your friend is confusing patronymic names with family names.
The vast majority still uses patronymic last names, their fathers‘ first name e.g. Jónsson/Jónsdóttir and Jónsbur for non binary people. Recently people have also been using the mother’s first name or even both names together.
What your friend is talking about that fell out of practice and had some strict rules for decades is family surnames that would be passed on as last names similar to how most of the western world does it. Some families have that tradition but they are a minority.
Roughly 5% of Icelanders have family names instead of patronyms, so your friend is talking out their ass, while still somehow referencing real things. They feel like chatgpt in that regard.
Tell your friend:
[Citation needed]
This is nonsense, basically everyone has patronymic names. Even many people who also have family names combine it with the patronym.
Your friend is wrong. It has become somewhat common to use the mother’s name instead of the father’s, i.e. Guðrúnarson/Guðrúnardóttir vs. Kjartansson/Kjartansdóttir but is still very much the norm that you are someone’s son or daughter.
Your friend is confidentially wrong. I’d like to be that confident about something I clearly don’t know anything about.
A „Norwegian-American“ waxing lyrical about our culture is objectively hilarious.
If one is ethnically Icelandic 99% chance you take your father’s name as last name, or mother’s. Taking both is becoming more common. There’s a few families with some danish or german family names grandfathered in from way back when who tend to keep those so that’s a small but growing group.
If your family name is Rodriguez or whatever you’re allowed to keep that or even adopt one as an adult if you can show precedence.