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From: (Sigvaldi Eggertsson)
Subject: Re: Gundred revisited
Date: 1 Jan 2003 05:41:24 -0800
References: <17f.14737b36.2b43bc5a@aol.com> <3.0.6.32.20030101021616.00d389a8@ishipress.com>


(Sam Sloan) wrote in message news:<>...
> At 10:36 PM 12/31/2002 EST, wrote:
> >In a message dated 12/31/2002 6:35:39 PM Central Standard Time,
> > writes:
> >
> >> Dear Gordon,
> >> I hope you are suitable ashamed of yourself admitting this, because she
> >> could well be your ancestor!!
> >>
> >
> >Actually she was, a 30th Great Grandmother. I still think that is a strange
> >name for a lady. I might expect to meet a Gundred in a house of ill repute,
> >but not in a palace. Names were different a while back though, weren't they.
> >
> >Gordon Hale
>
> I might expect to meet a Gundred in Iceland, where I have been 14 times.
>
> See "My Wild Icelandic Girls"
>
> http://www.samsloan.com/wild-ice.htm

There are no Gundreds in Iceland. For confirmation you can check the
Icelandic telephone directory (www.simaskra.is)

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