I might be wrong, but I think Thor is "Thunderer" rather than 'Thunder'.That's a good idea, something I've been thinking about. It's not uncommon as I've been learning about names, to have an element repeated in the first and last names. So, Thorbjorn Thorsson is not unreasonable or unheard of. In fact, it's pretty common. I like the ring of it too.It translates as "Thor's bear Thor's son" (or "thunder bear thunder's son").
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Adopting an Old Norse name
- Thread starter Jainarayan
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Possibly... I've seen it both ways. I have a prayer that has a line asking for "... one small percentage of the strength of the right arm of the Thunderer". The site I got the name Thorbjorn from translated it as "thunder bear". Plus keep in mind that Old Norse, and Icelandic are more inflected than modern English, so we can get all kinds of funky translations and meanings. For example,
Geek alert!
If someone wanted to take the surname of "Freyja's son" or "Freyja's daughter", it declines as "Freyjuson" or "Freyjudottir".. "Freyasson" means "I don’t know Norse". Go figure.
So at this point I should go around saying "freyjasson! freyjasson!".