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You used honorifics in Sweden too until fairly recently. Don't need to go further back than Pippi Longstockings (Herr Nilsson, Fröken Prysselius). And in geneal
by vintermann 3y ago
You used honorifics in Sweden too until fairly recently. Don't need to go further back than Pippi Longstockings (Herr Nilsson, Fröken Prysselius). And in genealogy I see plenty of Magisters, Profosses, Dragoons etc.
But Swedish naming traditions are great evidence that there's no such clean divide between "western" and "eastern" naming schemes: There have actually been dialects/areas where they put the genitive form if the family/farm name first, e.g "Dals Olof" even in Swedish, and in Finnish-speaking areas this was very common.