[vox] How to fix Google Chrome browser apt sources.list entry
Rick Moen
rick at linuxmafia.com
Wed Mar 23 18:49:34 PDT 2016
I wrote:
> I'd previously never heard of 'von' in Norwegian language (in that
> context[1]), but it appears to have the same meaning in both Norwegian
> and Danish that it does in German, when encountered as part of surnames
> (which is to say, a feudal title of nobility, not royal descent).
Checking the history of (some of) the various 'von' people listed on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristocracy_of_Norway, seems like all
were originally imports from Prussia or the various German states. So,
FWIW, my guess is that the 'von' prefix was strictly an import. (There
was a lot of coalition-building and intermarriage with little regard to
national borders in those days.)
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