[ SECRET POST #2023 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2023 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[hihartnfics]

Yes, matronymic (metronymic) naming is unusual, particularly in patriarchal cultures. It's one of the call-outs that suggests to historians and other mythology scholars that Loki may be one of the proto-Indo-European gods carried over into Norse mythology, just as Thor was. However, that's not a hard-and-fast rule - there are a handful of examples (literally) of men who went by matronyms in the various writing left behind by Norsemen and Finn-Galls. If the young person's mother, for whatever reason, took a place of prominence her husband might otherwise have, it was not unreasonable for her children to use the matronym - they were associated with her, rather than her husband.

I took Marvel's flipping of their roles to be A) initially a mistake, based on sources that referenced Loki as either "Laufeyson" or "Laufeyjarson" (both exist, and both refer to Loki as "Son of Laufey," Laufey being his mother) and B) not correcting the mistake later down the line, because they'd propped Laufey up into a position of power, and gods forbid a woman have a position of power with a husband who was a secondary figure. D:

[kathkin]

That's really interesting, thanks for the info. :) And haha yeah I was going to comment on the 'women in positions of power' possibility.