[PW] Icelandic Maiden Name?

[Meredith Dixon]

On Monday 17 September 2007 14:05, Deb Fuller wrote:
> married. Orsini isn't an Icelandic last name so Asta looks like she
> kept her Icelandic last name Gustavsdottir and added Orsini when she
> got married. 

When I visited Iceland, the tour guide told us that she had had to put her 
husband's last name on her passport after her own, because otherwise ignorant 
motel clerks in other countries assumed they weren't married.
She did not actually go by that name anywhere in Iceland.

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