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by HalfCrimp 951 days ago
Iceland uses patronymic naming [1] so you get a lot of this sort of thing. A child's surname will be their father's name plus a suffix depending on the child's sex. So the son and daughter of Thor will have surnames like Thorson and Thorsdottir, literally "Thor's son" and "Thor's daughter"

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_name