His Name Really Is "Barkeep": Difference between revisions

** Speaking of which, many Scandinavian names originated back when conscription was invented. Commanders sick of a platoon full of guys all named Eriksson would simply rename them after their function or temperament, which is how they ended up with family names translated as "Grenade", "Gun", "Spear", "Keep" or "Brave."

*** Oddly enough, the more literal reading of this trope (IE, being named for a job which one also happens to have) is unusually ''un''common in Sweden and some other Scandinavian regions - job-surnames are oddly rare, almost unheard of, so the chances of both having such a surname ''and'' having the same job approaches zero.

 

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