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Subject: Re: Filmex:  "When the Raven Flies"
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Date: Tue, 9-Apr-85 01:56:29 EST
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Some notes on another one of Reiher's well-written reviews (Where
does he get the time?):

Iceland is very proud of its cultural heritage, and is one
of the few modern socities to still use the "son/daughter-of"
system of naming. Thus director Hrafn Gunnlaugson's \personal
name/ is Hrafn (which actually means "raven"!) and his father's
name is Gunnlaug. It is therefore incorrect to speak of him as
"Gunnlaugson"; his name is Hrafn. To underscore this point:
Icelandic telephone directories are alphabethized by first name.
The Icelandic prime minister is similarly referred to by her
first name: Vigdis. (I could be wrong about some of this, since I'm
only a decadent Norwegian...)

> I think it was Edda Bjorgvinsdottir who played the major foe of Gest.
Clearly not, since "-dottir" means "daughter of".


	--Per Bothner
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