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Re: New Grandaughter Name "Jordis"
by Satu (_satu_)
4/9/2006, 10:05 PM
in reply to a message by Babs
In Norway, Jordis is a variant form of Hjørdis:http://www.nordicnames.de/flick_h/Hjordis.html/ Satuhttp://www.nordicnames.de/
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- Cleveland Kent Evans (clevelandkentevans)
4/10/2006, 10:11 AM
My guess would be that Ms. Unga's parents were using the Norwegian name rather than simply creating it. Her father is from Tonga but her mother is from Minnesota, where she could easily have run across Norwegian names such as Jordis.
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