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From: steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: re: Women Heads of State (Summary)
Message-ID: <6140@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-Nov-84 10:30:25 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  5 10:30:25 1984
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Reply-To: steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton)
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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In article <2214@mit-hermes.ARPA> jpexg@mit-hermes.ARPA (John Purbrick) types:
> Vigdis Finbogasdottir was president of Iceland for a few years.
[...]
> In Iceland they never got the all-but-universal habit of family names;
> "Finbogasdottir" is a patronymic serving to give President Vigdis some
> individuality among all the other Vigdises of Iceland.

Since in Iceland girls get their surnames from their mother:
<mother's first name>+dottir, and boys similarly from their father + son,
then "Finbogasdottir" must be a matronymic, not a patronymic!

Steven Pemberton, CWI, Amsterdam