re: #599 LudwigVanQuixote

Actually surnames not so much. Epithets absolutely. They loved titles like Bloodaxe or “the Terrible” or “Face Crusher…”

My personal theory was that they did all that stuff and took those names because of this one wide eyed really scary wiry guy in the long boat named Sven. JUST SVEN. They were all intimidated and very concerned they were not bad enough to hag with him.

Possibly so, but still “skullfucker” has no ring of reality to it. Maybe the term had the word “skull” in it (Skal or Skalle or similar), fucker has no obvious meaning other than modern English and it might just as well have been something to do with having a hard, or knobbly, or ugly skull.