Should Erica not be Olafsdottir?

A Storiesonline reader had this excellent question:

From: windcredit77 5/24/2019, 10:17:40 AM By norse naming conventions should Erica not be Olafsdottir ?

Dear Reader,

yes by Norse conventions, but the people of Nilfeheim are not descendants of old Norse, but of "modern Norse", of Swedes, Norwegians , Finns , Germans , and Danes. Their group has formed around re-enactment groups and gained popularity after the forceful desolation of nations by the Guardian of Earth and the new World government of Antarctica. During the Second Exodus, they left for Nilfeheim and were quite isolated at first and after over 2000 years, based on Terran sources and their own interpretation of things they developed their own culture and society (That of the Neo Vikings ) The Nilfeheim society exists consecutive longer than the actual Viking culture did. They based their culture on the often completely wrong popular cultural sources such as movies, books, comics, and TV shows and only a small portion of actual correct historical content.

I hope that will explain my reasoning not to include all aspects of Norse culture and make concious decisions to add "wrong" cultural references. And the Non-Norse Union Citizen registry recognizes Olafson as simple last name. But I agree with you by strict conventions she should be.

Vanessa