Brief Life History of Normann
Normann Skår was born in June 1921, in Bergen, Hordaland, Norway. He died in June 2016, in Haugesund, Rogaland, Norway, at the age of 95.
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1923 · Naming Law
Age 2
Naming Law adopted in Norway when each family was required to have a surname. They couldn't use patronymics. It could be either the husband's or wife's family name.
1940 · Norway in WW II
Age 19
German occupation of Norway from 9 April 1940 to 9 May 1945. Much damage was done to northern Norway.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Alf.
Norwegian:
habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads in every part of Norway called Skar(d), from Old Norse skarth ‘cleft, mountain pass’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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