Midgard Serpent (Marvel Comics)
Jormungand, also known as The Midgard Serpent or World Serpent, is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character, based on the serpent Jörmungandr from Norse mythology, first appears in "Marvel Tales" #105 (Feb. 1952), in the period between the Golden Age of Comic Books and the Silver Age of Comic Books.
Thorbjørn Jagland
Thorbjørn Jagland was born on 5 November 1950 as Thorbjørn Johansen in Drammen and is the son of a welder, Helge Th. Jagland, and a cook, Ingrid Bjerknes. Jagland graduated from secondary school in 1969. Along with his twin brother Helge, Thorbjørn Jagland briefly studied economics at the University of Oslo, but was at the same time involved in politics and did not finish his studies. Jagland and his parents changed their surname from Johansen, a common surname with working class connotations, to Jagland in 1957; the Jagland name was one of the proposed "new family names" which imitated traditional farm names in the book "2000 nye slektsnavn" ("2,000 new family names") by Astrid Moss; the book aimed to help members of the working class with common surnames to find more unique names.