Talk:Margrét Þóra Hallgrímsson

Name
Icelanders please help. Shouldn't it be "Hallgrímsdóttir" instead of "Hallgrimsson"? I agree with that "son" would only be appropriate for male children. Ulenspegel (talk) 01:03, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
 * This is a misunderstanding. In this name, Hallgrímsson is not a patronym, but a surname. The person is, in full, called Margrét Þorbjörg Hallgrímsson. Her father, Hallgrímur Fr. Hallgrímsson, was ethnically Icelandic but Canadian by birth, so his patronym was used a surname, which he passed on to his daughter. See for example how Þóra is named at http://www.mbl.is/greinasafn/grein/789693/. I'll remove the erroneous hatnote to this article and add an explanation of the name later today when I have some time. Alarichall (talk) 14:28, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I've now fixed this. Alarichall (talk) 19:19, 2 December 2015 (UTC)