Vitalina, Volodar, Diaz, Arnold and Ophelia... How many fantasy, historical and simply beautiful names would have been lost, how many unusual characters and destinies would not have been found if there had been a committee on personal names in our country - such as in Iceland .
Your name in the hands of six people
When you say the word “committee,” you, of course, imagine a large crowd of people in a representative building, sitting at tables littered with papers, long lists of names, and thinking intensely: “Masha or Dasha? Or maybe Glasha?
But no, the committee in Iceland is only six people: three are appointed by the Minister of Justice for a period of 4 years, and three more are appointed by the highest educational institutions countries. Just imagine, in the hands of six people an entire country, with its first names, patronymics and surnames (after all, in Iceland, surnames can also include parents’ names)! And until these most honorable six husbands give the go-ahead for the name you have chosen for your child, you will have to call the baby “bunny” or “sun”.
Why?
You may ask why and who needs this, and why shouldn’t parents be given the opportunity to decide for themselves what to name their own son or daughter? It's simple, Iceland, in the fight against foreign borrowings (most of all borrowings from Denmark), first of all defends its language. If you look back at history, Iceland became an independent country in 1918, but Denmark's influence remained.
Since the 1960s, Icelandic universities have taken up the task of eradicating foreign elements, and the Registry of Icelandic Names was gradually created, and in 1991, the Committee on Personal Names. The criteria for selecting the name were: following the traditions of the Icelandic language, euphony of the name, compliance with Icelandic grammar, and matching the gender of the name with the gender of the child. In other words, in our country the committee would definitely be in favor of Ivan, Peter and Agafya. But the names for the girl Yaroslava and the boy Valera might not be missed.
Agent 007 or Marie Louise Victoria?
Of course, people who decide for everyone must definitely have refined taste and impeccable names. This is Johannes Bjarni Sigtryggsson, doctor of Icelandic grammar, writer. He is very proud of his ancestry. After all, not only does he have one of the most beautiful, consonant and, most importantly, truly Icelandic names, his children are named correctly and tastefully: daughter Zhora, sons Gudmundur, Sigtryggur and Eystein (the boys are named after two grandfathers and one Icelandic poet 14 century). In Russia, the only person comparable to Johannes would probably be some Matveev Vsevolod Radomirovich or Ivanov Ivan Ivanovich. Johannes himself and other representatives of the committee consider their work very responsible and say without modesty that if it weren’t for them, children would be called either a combination of numbers or names of seventeen words. That is, Agent 007 or Marie Louise Victoria is a completely expected reality if there is no committee.
Fighters for names
"Sorry, but Greek name Andrej does not follow the rules of Icelandic grammar. Name the child Andrean or Andreas, or maybe Ande or Andres. After all, Icelandic has beautiful name Andri,” such refusals are not uncommon in Iceland. Typically, between half and two-thirds of the names are approved, and the remaining options are eliminated.
There are also cases when they try to challenge the Committee's decision. So, in 2005, Jon Gunnar Kristinsson, an actor and politician, tried to change his name to Jon Gnarr, that is, change his middle name and remove the third. The committee granted the request halfway - now he is Jón Gnarr Kristinsson, and his daughter Camilla is named so only unofficially; the committee did not miss the name, since it does not contain the Icelandic letter “C”.
At home - Blair, and officially "Stúlka", which translates simply as "Girl". Blair Bjarkadottir Runarsdottir lived with these names for sixteen years. The thing is that her parents named her in honor of the heroine of Halldoror Laxnessom’s novel “A Fish Can Sing” Blair, they managed to christen her under this name, but the Committee did not officially accept her - in the Icelandic language this name was listed as masculine, which means it is not suitable for a girl. All that remained was to either change the gender of the name or the gender of the victim herself. For sixteen years she remained a “Girl”, and then she protested the Committee’s decision in court, thereby proving that its word is not the last, and a fish can really sing.
More and more
Now the female name Blair has appeared in the Icelandic registry of names, which differs from the male name in its declension system. In general, the register is growing rapidly: in 2012 it consisted of just over 3,500 names, this year there are already 3,600, and in January the list was replenished with five new ones: the men's Geimar and Brimtour, the women's Gudna, Iselin and Ljounei. Perhaps the time is not far off when the Greek Andrej and Camilla will be approved, but, in general, the Committee is doing a useful job - strengthening the Icelandic roots and developing its own native language in the country. We can only envy, and maybe rejoice - nothing interferes with our imagination. The main thing is not to overdo it - after all, since 2017, our country has already had a law that prohibits calling children offensive or ridiculous names, which means that registry offices have the right to refuse to register a child with a name that is too unusual.
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Iceland differs from most other countries in the world in that its inhabitants They rarely have surnames, and when addressing each other they use their first and patronymic names.
An Icelandic patronymic consists of the father's name and the word for "son" (son) or "daughter" (dottir). So, if Jon Einarsson had a son and he was named Olafur, then his name will not be Olafur Einarsson, but Olafur Jonsson. This is what famous people say:
- at the musician's Haukur Tomasson father's name is Thomas;
- at the singer's Bjork Gudmundsdottir dad's name is Gundmund;
- at Miss World 1988 Linda Petursdottir Father's name is Petur.
If you have to deal with two namesakes with the same names and patronymics, then they begin to distinguish them by the name of their grandfather.
In this case, when addressing a person in full, the grandfather’s patronymic is added to the name and patronymic. For example, Jon Petursson Einarsson (Jon, son of Petur son of Einar). Previously, a similar tradition was observed in other Scandinavian countries, but was later abolished, and was preserved only in Iceland. However, these days in Norway, Sweden and Denmark it has again become fashionable to use this principle, replacing the surname with the patronymic. If the father in an Icelandic family has an unusual name (for example, if he is an immigrant), then before giving his name as a middle name to the children, you need to obtain permission from a special department - the Icelandic Name Commission, which will decide whether it is possible given name
used in Icelandic. In some cases, Icelanders choose their mother's name rather than their father's name for their middle name. , for example, if they want nothing to do with their. This is what, for example, the famous Icelandic football player Heidar Helguson called himself, that is, Heidar, the son of Helga. So for Icelanders the character clause " Office romance”, who named its director Prokofy Lyudmilych, would not be such.
In general, Icelanders use only first names when addressing each other, even if it is the country's Prime Minister(Johanna Sigurðardóttir was simply called Jóhanna). In certain cases, such a system exhibits its inconveniences. Like everywhere else in Iceland phone books subscribers are listed in alphabetical order. But if everywhere the listing begins with the surname (which is always rarer and more unique than the name), then among the Icelanders the first sorting is by first name, and only then by patronymic. In addition, incidents often arise when Icelanders travel with their children. Customs officers in countries with a different name formation clearly know that children must have the same surname as their parents, but this is not the case here.
But sometimes Icelanders also have real, “European” surnames, although they are used here very rarely. Most often, surnames “stick” to Icelanders who had foreign ancestors in the past. But even then they use a shortened form of their middle name in addition to their last name. Examples of famous Icelanders with surnames: actress Anita Briem, director Baltasar Kormakur, football player Eidur Gudjohnsen.
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In most countries of the world, future parents, even before it becomes known whether they will have a son or daughter, begin to come up with a name for the child, discuss this issue with friends, and as soon as the baby is born, they immediately tell everyone his or her name .
In Iceland, everything is exactly the opposite. Here, acquaintances and relatives of young parents, as a rule, learn the child’s name only six months after the baby is born. If you ask a couple of Icelanders what they decided to name their child, they will look at you in surprise and leave the question unanswered.
Unbelievable but true. Until six months, most Icelandic newborns live without a name; parents simply call their children “stúlka” - girl or “drengur” - boy. The whole point is that it is not customary in Iceland to come up with a name for a child before his birth; you need to look at the baby that is born. Well, after the parents choose a name for the baby, it must be officially approved in accordance with the Icelandic list of names. This document contains 1800 names, not all of them are traditional, but only those names that comply with a number of rules receive approval. For example, it should not contain the Latin letters C or Z, since they are not in the Icelandic alphabet, and also the name may not be approved if it is spelled strangely.
So, first, parents must see the baby, then choose a name for him or her, then submit the name for consideration and wait for it to be officially approved. As a rule, the entire process takes from one to six months, and only after the baby receives official documents does his name become known to everyone. In a word, why rush, because a name is a serious matter, you need to think about it thoroughly, and then a person needs to live with it! Often, on the occasion of the naming of a son or daughter, happy parents throw a party at which they officially introduce their child to friends and family. If the baby was born to a couple who adheres to the Christian religion, the party in honor of finding a name is often held on the same day as the baptism.
Well, as I have written many times, Icelanders do not have a last name, their role is played by patronymics. Boys add the ending “son” to their father’s name, meaning “son,” while girls add “dóttir,” meaning “daughter.” However, as Icelanders told me, sometimes they resort to little tricks in order to simulate the presence of a surname; for this, boys are often called by the name of their grandfather, so that the family line can be traced.
A correctly chosen name has a strong positive impact on a person’s character, aura and destiny. Actively helps to develop, forms positive qualities of character and condition, strengthens health, removes various negative programs of the unconscious. But how to choose the perfect name?
Despite the fact that in culture there are poetic interpretations of what they mean female names, in reality, the influence of the name on each girl is individual.
Sometimes parents try to choose a name before birth, preventing the child from developing. Attempts to use astrology are no longer applicable; astrology and numerology for choosing a name have squandered all serious knowledge about the influence of a name on fate over the centuries.
Christmastide calendars, holy people, without consulting a seeing, perspicacious specialist, do not provide any real assistance in assessing the influence of names on the fate of a child.
Popular lists, happy, beautiful, melodious female names are essentially generalizations, and completely turn a blind eye to the individuality, energy, and soul of the child.
Beautiful and modern Icelandic names should primarily suit the child, and not relative external criteria of beauty and fashion. Who don't care about your child's life.
Various characteristics according to statistics - positive features name, negative traits name, choice of profession by name, influence of a name on business, influence of a name on health, psychology of a name can only be considered in the context of a deep analysis of the character, energy structure, task for life and gender of a particular child.
Name Compatibility Topic(and not the characters of people) is an absurdity that turns the interaction inside out different people internal mechanisms of influence of a name on the state of its bearer. And it cancels the entire psyche, unconscious, energy and behavior of people. Reduces the entire multidimensionality of human interaction to one false characteristic.
Meaning of the name does not give full impact, it is only a small part of the impact. For example Asdis (goddess) this does not mean that the girl will be happy in family life, and bearers of other names are unhappy. The name can weaken her health, block her heart center and she will not be able to give and receive love. On the contrary, another girl will be helped to solve problems related to love or family, which will make life and achieving goals much easier. The third girl may not have any effect at all, whether there is a name or not. Etc. Moreover, all these children can be born on the same day. And have the same astrological, numerological and other characteristics. And the same name. But fates are different.
The most popular Icelandic names for girls are also misleading. 95% of girls are called names that do not make their fate easier. You can only focus on the child’s innate character, spiritual vision and the wisdom of a specialist. And experience, experience and once again the experience of understanding what is happening.
The secret of a woman's name, as a program of the unconscious, a sound wave, vibration is revealed in a special bouquet primarily in a person, and not in the semantic meaning and characteristics of a name. And if this name destroys a child, then no matter how beautiful, melodious with the patronymic, astrologically accurate, blissful it is, it will still be harmful, destroy character, complicate life and burden fate.
Below is a list of Icelandic names. Try to choose several that you think are most suitable for your child. Then, if you are interested in the effectiveness of the name’s influence on fate, .
List of female Icelandic names in alphabetical order:
Adalbjorg - noble defense
Asdis - goddess
Brinja - armor
Brynhilder - armored female warrior
Joanna - good god
Jonah - good god
Kristjana - follower of Christ
Lara - laurel
Lilja - lily
Margret - pearl
Pala - small
Ragnhilder - struggling
Svanhilder - battle of the swan
Unner - wave
Fritrika - peaceful ruler
Khjordis - goddess of the sword
Hilder - battle
Halldora - Thor's Rock
Destiny is character. Character is adjusted, including through thoughts. The most the main idea This name. The name introduces changes in character. Then the character changes fate and future. Since all people are different, any generalizations that ignore a person’s individuality are incorrect.
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Friends, good afternoon! Today I will talk about such seemingly simple things as the names of people and license plates of cars in Iceland. U local residents and this has its own characteristics that look unusual and original for Russians. This will be discussed in the article. First, look at this photo taken on the Reykjavik city beach in January. In the depths of winter, under open air, on a snow-covered beach, Icelanders relax in a bath of hot thermal water. Read more. Purely Icelandic picture:
Icelanders are a small nation. Today, the population in the country is just over 320 thousand people. Of which about 10% are foreign immigrants. Thus, there are less than three hundred thousand native Icelanders. And in the old days, when the first settlers arrived on the island, from whom the entire “Icelandic family” came, the number of the local population was several times smaller than it is now.
Probably due to this small population, Icelanders did not have surnames. There were so few people that there was no need for surnames. It was enough to have a first name and patronymic, which served as a surname. This tradition continues today. Modern Iceland is perhaps the only country in the world where the majority of residents do not have surnames as such. There is only a first name (often two or even three names) and a patronymic. In modern Iceland, only immigrants of the modern wave, as well as a small number of local Icelanders, whose ancestors were foreigners with surnames who came to Iceland not so long ago, within the last 100-200 years, have surnames, in the usual sense for us.
It took me a while to understand how Icelanders manage without surnames. When in every Icelandic family, all its members, parents and children, different surnames, because different patronymics. From my point of view this creates incredible confusion. At first it was difficult for me to get used to the complex Icelandic names, many of which my tongue was simply unable to pronounce. But gradually everything worked out, both to understand and to reprimand. I will try to explain to you what an Icelandic name and surname are. It's actually quite simple. An Icelandic surname is a patronymic.
For example, an Icelander’s name is Jón Gunnarsson (Jón is a first name, Gunnarson is a surname), or, in Russian, Jón Gunnarovich. This means that Jonn’s father was Gunnar, which means Jon is Gunnar’s son, i.e. Gunnarson, Jón Gunnarsson.
Jón Gunnarson's son, for example, is called Bjarni Jónnovic in Russian, and Bjarni Jónsson in Icelandic. It is clearly seen that father and son have different patronymics, therefore different Icelandic surnames.
According to a similar scheme, they are built female surnames, only to the name of the father, instead of son - “son”, the ending dóttir is added - douhtir, which means “daughter”. For example: Kristín Guðmundsdóttir (Kristin, daughter of Gvüzmund), Jóhanna Sturludóttir (Jóhanna, daughter of Sturla). Well, it goes without saying that the middle name of a father and his daughter is almost always different, which means their Icelandic surnames are also different.
In addition, when an Icelandic woman gets married, it is quite logical that she never changes her patronymic and does not take the surname (or rather patronymic) of her husband. So it turns out that in every Icelandic family, the mother has one surname, the father has a completely different surname, and their children have a third surname. How do you like this mix?
There is one big plus in this family confusion. It consists in the fact that since in Icelandic society the surname is not passed on from father to son, this means there is no opportunity and conditions for boasting and flaunting famous surname and use it for personal gain. In Iceland, it is customary to evaluate and respect a person only for his personal qualities and achievements, and not for belonging to any family, even the most ancient and famous.
Now let's talk about Icelandic names. Few Icelanders have one name. As a rule, at birth a child is given two names, and sometimes even three. This allows for better identification of Icelanders, creating fewer matches based on only one first and last name (patronymic). In a telephone directory, the list of subscribers is compiled starting with the first name, not the last name, so each common name often takes up several pages of the directory:
Many Icelandic names, both male and female, have a strange sound to the Russian ear and difficult pronunciation for the Russian language. For example: Svanhildur (pronounced Svanhildur), Friðbjörn (pronounced Frizbjörtn), Hrafnkell (pronounced Hrapnketl), Snæfríður (pronounced Shneifrizyur). It was necessary to come up with such words! Try to guess which of these names are male and which are female? You will find the answer at the end of the article.
Fortunately for foreigners living here, not all Icelandic names are so “fuzzy”. There are also quite normal ones, with “human” pronunciation, sometimes very similar to Russians. For example: Ómar, Jón, Sveinn, Árni, Valdimar, Ingi, Einar, Anna, María, Olga, Júlía, Soffía, Sonja.
It is very interesting that many Icelandic names are derived from the names of animals and birds, plants and flowers, natural phenomena, etc.
For example, the Icelandic word björn means "bear". From it the male names are derived: Björn, Bersi, Bessi, Bjarni, and the female name Birna-bear. Snæbjörn - white (snow) bear. From this word male names are derived: Snæbjörn, Sæbjörn, Friðbjörn.
Here are more original Icelandic male names: Úlfur - wolf; Hjörtur-deer; Karl-male; Örn and Ari-eagle; Valur-falcon; Hrafn-raven; Svanur-swan; Þröstur-sparrow; Már-petrel; Guðmundur-divine; Álfur-elf, etc.
But the original Icelandic female names: Svana and Svanfríður-swan; Valgerður-falcon; Kría-tern; Arna-eagle; Hrafnhildur-crow; Rán-sea; Unnur and Alda-wave; Katla and Hekla are names that repeat the names of volcanoes; Mjöll-snowball; Álfheiður-woman - elf; Björk - birch; Vala - pebbles, etc.
Like these ones unusual names adopted by the Icelanders. In addition, many locals have the habit of naming their cars as well. This is allowed here. Instead of a classic license plate, the car owner can come up with any word, name or set of letters and numbers, in general, whatever he wants and has enough imagination for. And this fantasy will be embodied in your car license plate. It goes without saying that for such pleasure you need to pay a certain amount, and a considerable one.
Judging by the license plates of the cars that caught my eye, I can confidently say that Icelanders have nothing wrong with their imagination and sense of humor. Often there are license plates with a male or female name, Icelandic or foreign. But such numbers are quite boring; they do not show any imagination of the owner of the car:
Sometimes the name of the license plate can be associated with the profession of the car owner. Probably the owner of this car is an actor or musician:
Sometimes there are more interesting license plates, which are a set of numbers similar to the date of birth or some other significant date in the life of a car owner. Numbers like this make you think. And sometimes the number is so strange that it is completely impossible to guess what it means?
But most of all I like license plates, some photos of which I publish below. Here's how they are translated from Icelandic. This number literally means "animals":
And this Icelandic word is translated into Russian as “calf”:
Well, this word does not need translation. I’m sure any of you will guess that this Icelandic word for a license plate means “pig” in Russian. Yes, yes, just a pig, an ordinary pig.
We can assume that the owners of these cars tell their friends something like this: “Over the summer, my animals ran 50 thousand kilometers off-road. Their tires are bald, it’s time to change the wheels.” Or “I accidentally dented my calf’s bumper and broke the sidelight.” Or “My pig is always dirty and terribly gluttonous, I fill it every three days.” Well, or something like that...
Friends, I hope you have felt some of the character traits of the locals and appreciated the inimitability of Icelandic humor. Icelanders are very creative people, they know how to come up with reasons and reasons for fun and enjoy the little things. Well done, aren't they?
And now the correct answer to the question about Icelandic names. Male names: Friðbjörn (Frizbjörn) and Hrafnkell (Hrapnketl), female names: Svanhildur (Svanhildur) and Snæfríður (Shnæfríður).
