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The appendix "sen," or son, means that the man was the son of Thor-vald; and in some way the name got ossified, like the name Robinson, Parkinson, Peterson or Albertson, and then it was Thorwaldsen. Men who are strong in their own natures are very apt to smile at the good folk who chase the genealogical aniseed trail it is a harmless diversion with no game at the end of the route.
In childhood the good old aunties used to tell him how the god Thor once trod the earth and shattered the mountains with his hammer. From Thor and the World his first ancestor was born, so the family name was Thor-vald.
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