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The incoming administration of Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir, which takes over on Sunday, also said it will set up a panel of experts to look into the advantages and disadvantages of retaining the Icelandic crown over adopting the Euro.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What a name, "the daughter of frost"!

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Technically, the daughter of Frostí, which is a recognised masculine name in Iceland. And also her father’s name: they don’t use family names in Iceland (other than about 7 surnames grandfathered from the Danish colonial era, but those are uncommon), and people have one or two given names and a patronym, a system which has so far scaled well enough for Iceland.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Fun fact: Germany recently re-introduced patronyms. Technically only applies to Frisians but at least in my state being Frisian is as simple (as far as the state is concerned) as claiming that you are so it's a free for all. So there's again going to be Knut Jansen, son of Jan Peters, son of Peter Larsen. To modernise the whole thing also matronyms are allowed.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

And also her father’s name: they don’t use family names in Iceland

Why is Iceland so based in everything*?

*This is the same system we use in the Arab/Muslim world and I thought only we had it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, I saw the í but well.

It's like the old swedish minister of justice, Gun Hellsvik (hellsweek).

Do they always switch the last name in Iceland? Like many places has "son of" like Svenson in Sweden, but it became a family name so it doesn't change any more.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sweden only made the change gradually about a century ago, with it happening first in urban areas. The merchant Clas Ohlson, after whom the dry goods chain is named, was the son of Olle something-other-than-Ohlson, and the first in his line to make their surname a family name.

Surnames that describe the individual (“son of Olaf”, “the blacksmith”, “from up the river”) work fine in small-scale societies, but are a problem for bureaucracies and other systems. IIRC, a lot of the pressure for standardised family names in Europe was to make things like taxation and conscription more manageable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

I also heard that for a long time people didn't have family names at all, but it became all the rage in like 1700 century or something.