Welcome to the Nordic mythology podcast, I'm Daniel Farring and I'm the owner of the Company of Horns of Odin and today I'm joined by Felix Luma.

Felix first of all you maybe have the best name of anyone that's ever joined.

I love the name Felix. I just it's I love it it's just a great name you don't I think over here anyway

you don't hear it very often I don't know how popular is in Germany oh I'm not

sure it is you know out there I know at least one other Felix but I also kind of like it because the other name that my parents would have likely decided on was Lucas and I don't think that I would have been a good Lucas. I like my name very much.

Yeah, I know Felix's suits you, it's different.

Thank you. It's certainly not one you hear every day. I don't think I could have rocked Felix. I don't think I would have suited it, but

You know, I'll just stick with Daniel it works it's a great name as well. Yeah, you have to say that.

Yeah, I mean really no it is I do like it I do like it I do like it. I do like it. Except I always get asked the question which one do you prefer Dan Dan Eh or Daniel and I just I'm just like I don't care I think I some people I guess have preference I'm saying I'm not bothered

Yeah, I mean for me there is no really like like a shortening or something, it's always been Felix. But when I moved to Iceland, they are very fond of, you know, all these kinds of niceties with names, right? You have, for instance, Sigelish becomes Siggy, right?

Hukon becomes Kani, Yon becomes Nunni. So they are very quick in getting, you know, these kind of cute names for your person or given names and there

are some names which it doesn't really fit for instance

Yastush would be one right. And Felix, I thought, would have been another one where it is somewhere between, you know, not being long enough to be shortened, but also not too short to be elongated, like with the own who becomes

non-y as I said. But there are some Icelanders who call me FELI, which is also a short form for Fielai, which means like colleague, Powell.

So I kind of like it.

It kind of works. It works in two ways.

It works in two ways, exactly, and that's why I like it and again you can also

refer to me as Fellie I respond to that as well. Dan. I'm staying done's a good one. That's all right. No, yeah, I don't mind that at all. I have, it's funny, I have certain people call me different variations and I know straight away like how to respond.

Yeah exactly at times it gets too former right because when people

address me sometimes at Felix it's like what have I done?

Yeah.

What have I done wrong?

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