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Non-paywall story: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67387827 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67387827

• mock-possum 3y ago
  > Thor Thordason, professor of volcanology at the University of Iceland Whose parents clearly had a sense of humor
  • sbarre 3y ago
    I work with a "Jonathan Johnson" so yeah..
  • HalfCrimp 3y ago
    Iceland uses patronymic naming [1] so you get a lot of this sort of thing. A child's surname will be their father's name plus a suffix depending on the child's sex. So the son and daughter of Thor will have surnames like Thorson and Thorsdottir, literally "Thor's son" and "Thor's daughter" [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_name https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_name
  • maxnoe 3y ago
    Iceland still mostly uses "<name of father>{son,dottir}" last names. Nothing about humor, just a father calling his son similar to himself. Seems his full name is Þorvaldur Þórðarson.
  • hackeraccount 3y ago
    I thought I heard that Iceland doesn't use patronymic buy uses matronymic names.
    • hackeraccount 3y ago
      That wikipedia page they use matronymic "sometimes"