Rjurik Nametraditions

[Cobos]

I've been thinking about the Rjurik names. I know from my school classes
that the vikings used a naming system were your family-name (the last
name) is a derivate of your father. I'll give an example:

Eirik Haraldson has two children:
1 boy called Olaf Eirikson where -son means the son of
1 girl named Gyda Eirikdottir where -dottir means daughter of (dottir is
a Icelandic suffix as far as I can remember)

I was just wandering if anyone else is using this system of names ? It
is of course very good for tracking lineage one chain back at the time.

Sindre

[Pieter Sleijpen]

Sindre Cools Berg wrote:
>
> I've been thinking about the Rjurik names. I know from my school classes
> that the vikings used a naming system were your family-name (the last
> name) is a derivate of your father. I'll give an example:
>
> Eirik Haraldson has two children:
> 1 boy called Olaf Eirikson where -son means the son of
> 1 girl named Gyda Eirikdottir where -dottir means daughter of (dottir is
> a Icelandic suffix as far as I can remember)
>
> I was just wandering if anyone else is using this system of names ? It
> is of course very good for tracking lineage one chain back at the time.
>
> Sindre

I do. Just as in Khinasi, bint means daughter of and ibn means son of.

[Trizt]

Sindre Cools Berg wrote:
>
> I've been thinking about the Rjurik names. I know from my school classes
> that the vikings used a naming system were your family-name (the last
> name) is a derivate of your father. I'll give an example:
>
> Eirik Haraldson has two children:
> 1 boy called Olaf Eirikson where -son means the son of
> 1 girl named Gyda Eirikdottir where -dottir means daughter of (dottir is
> a Icelandic suffix as far as I can remember)
>
> I was just wandering if anyone else is using this system of names ? It
> is of course very good for tracking lineage one chain back at the time.

Today it's only on Iceland they use this system, but I have heared that they are
more and more doing as in the rest of the north germanic contries to keep the
fathers last name. In the rest of scandinavia (the Finnic half), it has been
quite common with last names which describes from where the person comes, like
Virolainen which indicates that the persons roots comes from Viro-district in
Esthonia. The name aren't always in a Finnic language, e.g. Tavast (latin. for
Häme.), which was the name of the royal family from Tavastland.

//Trizt

[e.piir]

>Today it's only on Iceland they use this system, but I have heared that
>they are
>more and more doing as in the rest of the north germanic contries to keep the
>fathers last name. In the rest of scandinavia (the Finnic half), it has been
>quite common with last names which describes from where the person comes, like
>Virolainen which indicates that the persons roots comes from Viro-district in
>Esthonia. The name aren't always in a Finnic language, e.g. Tavast (latin. for
>Häme.), which was the name of the royal family from Tavastland.

Viro-lainen - it just grammatical construction, like german-ic,
scandinav-ic... And Finnish is only one of Finno-Ugric languages (like
Estonian).

EP

[Trizt]

"e.piir" wrote:

> Viro-lainen - it just grammatical construction, like german-ic,
> scandinav-ic...
Yes, that one is a grammatic construction, but it still , "one from Viro".
We do have names like Aho with different prefix which gives the "localtion" (in
a locla enviromnet, like a village). Oh, forgot to say that nature linked last
names are common too.

> And Finnish is only one of Finno-Ugric languages (like
> Estonian).

Thats true too, but Estonian, Finnish, Liivi, Carelian, Sami, Meri are all
Finnic languages.