Lord of the memes

8165 readers

280 users here now

The Lord of the rings memes communitiy on Lemmy. Share memes about Lord of the rings and be respectful.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

704

Kid talks (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

124 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

This is fun because Maija is a very common name for women in Finland. Not this generation particularly but it's like the Finnish equivalent of Mary or something to the generation that was born around 30's-40's. For some reason it was exploding in popularity from the the 1900's (as in the oughts, not the century) to 1930 in Finland. And seeing how Tolkien definitely took influence from Finnish, I wonder if there might be an actual connection.

edit I changed the example name from Jennifer to Mary as I realised "Mary Poppins" is translated as "Maija Poppanen" in Finnish

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

For some reason it was exploding in popularity from the the 1900’s (as in the oughts, not the century) to 1930 in Finland.

It's because everyone wanted to associate their kids with the English Queen Mary. Idk why. My Italian grandparents named all their kids after English royalty too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In France I know a Maia, in Sweden a Maja!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Oh I haven't heard of French Maias, but I did know Sweden has Maja, that's probably where it came to Finnish from, I'd wager. Yeah, Wikipedia says the Scandic equivalent is Maja, yeah. It's a deviation on "Mary" as I suspected from Mary Poppins.