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I had believed that all native Icelanders had a surname that is an immediate patronymic: the new prime minister seems to have a more typically Danish (?) style of family name. Any explanation (preferably beyond "you believed wrongly")? Kevin McE 16:53, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
For better information please include this in Icelandic naming conventions Bestlyriccollection
Could he be the reincarnation of Keir Hardie, due to his similar name, or perhaps the same man, out of retirement, with a misspelling? Unforgivable Sinner 12:20, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
Dose the Icelandic Prime Ministers have numbers like the Swedish Prime Ministers ?
Hannes Hafstein (the first of them all - twice)
Sigurður Eggerz (twice)
Ólafur Thors (Half-Danish - five times)
Jóhann Hafstein
Benedikt Gröndal
Gunnar Thoroddsen
Geir Haarde (Half-Norwegian)
That makes seven out of, well count for yourselves. :-)
Cheers Io 17:51, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
His namn looks like it is of a Dutch origin?, note the double-A. Falcon-eagle2007 23:06, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
To go into extreme detail about a relatively minor detail: I deleted the erroneous etymology of his Norwegian name ("the hard one"). I have now tracked down a source about the real meaning.
First of all: The name is the name of a farm, more precisely the farm that his father emigrated to Iceland from. This is one of the two common ways of forming surnames in Norwegian. The farm in its modern spelling is called "Hårde" and is situated in Rogaland county, near the border of Hordaland. In 2000, 30 Norwegians had the surname "Hårde".
The origin of the name is not certain. In medieval sources, it is written Hörðu, (Hǫrðu). It is speculated that this may be connected with the name of the tribe/people "hörðar", who also gave their name to Hordaland county (old Norse Hörðaland). A possible original form is "*Hörðá", - "the river/stream of the hörðar".
Sources: Olav Veka: "Norsk etternamnleksikon" (Oslo, 2001) and O. Rygh: "Norske Gaardnavne" (Kristiania, 1898) -- Barend ( talk) 11:07, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
The hatnote says that "this is an Icelandic name". I question that, as Haarde is evidently a Norwegian name, and the name structure is certainly Norwegian and not Icelandic. A person with an Icelandic name will have a given name and an active patronymic, unlike Haarde, who has his father's Norwegian family name and no patronymic, so the name doesn't follow Icelandic naming customs at all. It may still be the case that he is usually referred to by his given name within Iceland, but it is entirely proper in international contexts to refer to him according to the English (given that this is the English language Wikipedia) and Norwegian (given that his name is Norwegian) convention, that is, by his family name in formal written language (and Geir in informal language, if you know him personally). -- Gaduse ( talk) 13:53, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
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It appears extraordinary that someone convicted of criminal misconduct in public office would then go on to be appointed as an Ambassador. Does this merit some kind of explanation in the article? 17:55, 30 June 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.163.171.174 ( talk)
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I had believed that all native Icelanders had a surname that is an immediate patronymic: the new prime minister seems to have a more typically Danish (?) style of family name. Any explanation (preferably beyond "you believed wrongly")? Kevin McE 16:53, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
For better information please include this in Icelandic naming conventions Bestlyriccollection
Could he be the reincarnation of Keir Hardie, due to his similar name, or perhaps the same man, out of retirement, with a misspelling? Unforgivable Sinner 12:20, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
Dose the Icelandic Prime Ministers have numbers like the Swedish Prime Ministers ?
Hannes Hafstein (the first of them all - twice)
Sigurður Eggerz (twice)
Ólafur Thors (Half-Danish - five times)
Jóhann Hafstein
Benedikt Gröndal
Gunnar Thoroddsen
Geir Haarde (Half-Norwegian)
That makes seven out of, well count for yourselves. :-)
Cheers Io 17:51, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
His namn looks like it is of a Dutch origin?, note the double-A. Falcon-eagle2007 23:06, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
To go into extreme detail about a relatively minor detail: I deleted the erroneous etymology of his Norwegian name ("the hard one"). I have now tracked down a source about the real meaning.
First of all: The name is the name of a farm, more precisely the farm that his father emigrated to Iceland from. This is one of the two common ways of forming surnames in Norwegian. The farm in its modern spelling is called "Hårde" and is situated in Rogaland county, near the border of Hordaland. In 2000, 30 Norwegians had the surname "Hårde".
The origin of the name is not certain. In medieval sources, it is written Hörðu, (Hǫrðu). It is speculated that this may be connected with the name of the tribe/people "hörðar", who also gave their name to Hordaland county (old Norse Hörðaland). A possible original form is "*Hörðá", - "the river/stream of the hörðar".
Sources: Olav Veka: "Norsk etternamnleksikon" (Oslo, 2001) and O. Rygh: "Norske Gaardnavne" (Kristiania, 1898) -- Barend ( talk) 11:07, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
The hatnote says that "this is an Icelandic name". I question that, as Haarde is evidently a Norwegian name, and the name structure is certainly Norwegian and not Icelandic. A person with an Icelandic name will have a given name and an active patronymic, unlike Haarde, who has his father's Norwegian family name and no patronymic, so the name doesn't follow Icelandic naming customs at all. It may still be the case that he is usually referred to by his given name within Iceland, but it is entirely proper in international contexts to refer to him according to the English (given that this is the English language Wikipedia) and Norwegian (given that his name is Norwegian) convention, that is, by his family name in formal written language (and Geir in informal language, if you know him personally). -- Gaduse ( talk) 13:53, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
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It appears extraordinary that someone convicted of criminal misconduct in public office would then go on to be appointed as an Ambassador. Does this merit some kind of explanation in the article? 17:55, 30 June 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.163.171.174 ( talk)