Talk:Astrid Hofferson/@comment-3263704-20190414120407/@comment-4141088-20190424024208

I'm not saying it should be left out just because real vikings did it. More the fact that it's not specifically a viking thing, but a Nordic thing. Nordic women didn't start taking their husbands' names until the late 1800s and many still don't. And since there are so many people in the movies running around without any apparent last names to speak of, it seems like a big leap to say "We don't know either way, so better just assume they changed their names."