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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of about 25 farmsteads in Telemark, Buskerud, and Agden called Landsverk, from the genitive of land ‘land’, ‘field’ + verk ‘work’, i.e. clearing or cultivating the land.

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