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in reply to a message by Jim Young
I found only one reference to the name of Nordric and that was in the Ellis Island passenger lists. The person with the last name Nordric came from Norway, so I assumed that might be it's origin. Now, I did find the name as a first name in an online baby name book, that it stated the name was Anglo-Saxon, but I have seen many articles that say not to put to much stock in it. Any ideas of where to look?
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Ha! Ellis Island, home of garbled names. There is a Norwegian surname, Nordrik, with 23 bearers according to the same database. As the first component, nord, means "north" it looks like a place name, but I haven't found a place called Nordrik. Rik means "rich", but "north-rich" doesn't make much sense. There is a forum where you can post queries about Norden names -
http://www.nordicnames.de/forum.html
http://www.nordicnames.de/forum.html
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