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Rebecka Martinsson from Kiruna has not really found herself, despite her great success at a law firm in Stockholm. After a childhood friend passed away she returns to Kiruna where she gets pulled into a thrilling hunt for a killer. |
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| Ratings: | TVMaze: 7.3/10 | |
| Released: | March 8, 2017 | |
| Runtime: | 60 min | |
| Genres: | Drama Crime Mystery | |
| AKA: | Rebecka Martinsson: Arctic Murders | |
| Countries: | Sweden | |
| Companies: | TV4 TV4 Play Filmpool Nord Yellow Bird | |
| Cast: | Samuel Fröler Gunilla Röör Eva Melander Ida Engvoll Niklas Engdahl Lars Slind Sascha Zacharias | |
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Could I ask a question of someone here who is of Scandinavian heritage and/or speaks a northern language? My question is, Why is she not called Rebecka Martinsdottir? I notice in some of the shows I view from Scandi countries, -son ends male names, while -dottir (daughter) ends female ones. Not sure if this is only done in Iceland, or if it’s elsewhere as well. I watch a lot of stuff; this particular show is Swedish….
I’m not scandinavian but my understanding is that Icelanders tend to still use the patronymic naming system in the same way the entire Norse culture originally did. The rest of the Scandinavian countries use “surnames” like most of the rest of western countries. Many Scandinavian surnames are derived from the old patronymical names, usually in the masculine form of -son or -sen.
Ah! Thank you so much for the response. That helps me understand a bit better. I’ve asked some form of this question for awhile now, and you are the only one who knew something:-) I even wondered if -sson and -dottir could be in the various names of some siblings.
You’re welcome… Year, in Iceland families will will have siblings with Ivarsson and Ivarsdottir as the last names. There are other forms of patronyms and names derived from patronyms in cultures all over… In Russian the “middle” name is the father’s name, plus -vich The O’ in Irish names and Mc in Scottish names… Spanish names that end in -ez… Like Alvarez, Ferdnandez.. it’s a common naming system
Cool, isn’t it? 😀 To add one more I liked hearing, I recall in “The Pillars of the Earth” series how people took their trades and skills as surnames. Example: in the story, there was a Tom Builder, and a Caris Wooler. In real world, I know surnames were often descriptive in this way, from around the Middle Ages.
Yeah and the names have cognates in other languages like “Smith” would have been a blacksmith’s family, the name Kovacs means the same thing in Hungarian…