1.-Dotter, -Datter, -Dottir are all the same ending, meaning "daughter" in Scandinavia, and attached behind the father's first name. A woman kept her birth name all her life and did not take on her husband's last name as her own until about 100-200 years ago.
Source: S2 Title: Pedigree Resource File CD 49 Abbreviation: Pedigree Resource File CD 49 Publication: (Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 2002)
Source: S2357 Title: Type: Ancestral File Number Abbreviation: Type: Ancestral File Number 9BFX-L9
Source: S3 Title: Ancestral File (TM) Abbreviation: Ancestral File (TM) Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SAINTS Publication: June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998 Repository: #R1
Thorfinnson, Paul I of Orkney, Earl of Orkney. Acceded: 1057 Died: 1099, Bergen. Father: Sigurdsdon, Thorfinn the Black of Orkney, Jarl of Orkney, b. 1009. Mother: Finnsdottir, Ingibiorg Earls Mother.Married to Hakondottir, Daughter. Child 1: Paulsson, Hakon, Earl of Orkney. Child 2: Pauldottir, Thora. Child 3: Paulson, Brynjolf. Child 4: Pauldottir, Ingirid. Child 5: Pauldottir, Herbjorg. Child 6: Pauldottir, Ragnhild. (Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, Hull, England)
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I don't believe that this is the wife of Erland or Paul Orkney. Records indicate that Erland was married to Thora, daughter of one Sumarlidi Ospaksson. Not Thora Haakonsdatter.
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