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[Amy Z]

Haggridd wrote:

> 
> Did you know that in Iceland, descendancy for women is reckoned 
> matrilineally, so that if Amy's mother was named Mary, then Amy's 
full 
> name would be Amy Marysdottir. 

Actually, you've hit it almost on the head.  My mother's name is 
Zelda, however.

Amy Zeldasdottir
(not)

P.S.  I like the Icelandic system, and some (very, very few) US 
feminists have adopted the practice, naming themselves Marysdaughter 
and such.  I suppose if your goal is to break with patriarchy, that's 
what you have to do, because after all, even though I kept the last 
name I was born with, it is my father's name, and his father's and his 
father's before him.