Icelandic dog names

One of our new projects was launched yesterday. We now have a database of Icelandic dog names on this website.

The name database is far from exhaustive, but nearly 700 names can already be found in it.

The main sources for the database are the book Íslenski fjárhundurinn (The Icelandic Sheepdog) by Gísli Pálsson (Bókaútgáfan Hof, 1999) as well as questionnaire number 66 from the National Museum of Iceland (does not appear to be accessible at the moment) about dogs, where I found more than 200 names that did not appear in Gísli's book. To find explanations and improve the content, I used the name database in Worldfengur, which is the Origin Studbook of the Icelandic Horse, Íslensk orðsifjabók (Icelandic Etymological Dictionary) by Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1909–1987), and the Written Corpus of the Dictionary of the University of Iceland, The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies.

I hope the database will be useful to dog breeders, dog owners, and other enthusiasts for educational purposes and entertainment.

The name database will be updated and improved as needed, and I would like to ask people to send me suggestions for more names, additions to explanations, corrections, or if they come across incorrect information. However, I want to point out that I will only add Icelandic names or names that have a history in the Icelandic language or customs. The names that appear in the name database as it is today are all from before the turn of the millennium 2000, as Gísli's book was published in 1999 and the National Museum's questionnaire is based on interviews from 1987. However, I decided to omit the names Hitler, Stalin, and Franco, which belong to modern history and are associated with war crimes.