That's funny; I wouldn't have thought it would "raise waves"
Wade Brucesson writes:
But I was guessing at Bjork's father's name. All I know for sure is it starts with a 'G'.
Ah. Well, now you know -- 'Gudrun' is a woman's name. :-)
I think at the time I read about it, Bjork was considered a single mum and I think she was causing waves by saying her kids' surnames would be Bjorksson or Bjorksdottir.
That's weird, IMO: The matronymyc isn't all that unusual, as I understand it (just less usual than the patronymic); I gather it's fairly widely used in precisely those circumstances. And it's not as if the Icelanders were a particularly religious, or otherwise opposed to single-motherhood, people. The practice is fairly old (as in, centuries), AFAIK.
Oh well, what with her being an "international star", perhaps things change. Maybe a stink was raised abroad, or perhaps it even was Icelanders, *fearing* that she'd "present a bad image" of the country, who complained -- somewhat ridiculously, if so, for being "holier than the holy" for no real reason at all as far as they themselves are concerned.