When Karen Erichsdatter was born in 1684, in Bornholm, Denmark, her father, Erich Andersen Skomager, was 21 and her mother, Engelche Jacobsdatter, was 35.
equivalent of Katherine . It was first introduced to the English-speaking world by Scandinavian settlers in America; it has been used in Britain only since the 1940s, but had become very popular by the 1960s.
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