23 Jul 2005
Email from Copenhagen: Return of the Vikings

Nice to see the Danes allowing folks to return to patronymics, and very nice to see Heathenry getting some recognition in the mainstream media, complete with a link to Forn Siðr. Overall a pretty nice article, despite the authors seeming obsession with horned helmets (which were mostly products of a 19th century Romantic imagination, and not reality).

Starting next April, Danish newborns will no longer be required to share a last name with either of their parents, following the adoption of a new law that allows a return to the Viking tradition of patronymics. Instead of maintaining a single last name across generations, each generation of children, in this system, is given a last name that consists simply of the father’s (or in these gender-egalitarian times, the mother’s) first name with the suffix “son” or “datter” (daughter) added on.

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