Where did your name come from?
So one of my given names is Ingvild. As I’ve told before it means similar to ‘ancestors struggle’ in Norse origin, and I’m very interested in modern plus traditional genealogy so it’s perfect. It’s the most common used of my names, especially in younger generations like Millenial type I belong to, being born early 1990s in Northern Norway.
My mother had intended to choose Ingvild as my first name, but they call me something else. I got different name so I am not certain how it would have been growing up as an Ingvild in my official life. Bullies can use any name to hurt someone so nothing is safe. I’m a proud Kven, one the ethnic minority groups in Norway. I have a lot on my maternal grandmother side, she identify as quite strongly Kven in culture and ancestry. I feel we all should learn either Kven language or modern Finnish to understand better and communicate well with other Finns.
I like being Ingvild officially, it’s part of my real identity as the main family researcher together for my close relatives, in one word.
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