Thanksgiving Day is an annual national holiday in the United States and Canada celebrating the harvest and other blessings of the past year. In the US Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November while in Canada nearly one month and a half earlier (second Monday of October).
Last name origins & meanings: 1  Polish and Jewish (from Poland): from Polish sikora âtitmouseâ, âcoalmouseâ, hence a nickname for a small, dark person, or, in the case of the Jewish name, an ornamental name. 2  Jewish (from Poland): habitational name from any of the villages called Sikory.
(Redirected from Volsung) In Norse mythology, VÃ¶lsung (Old Norse: VÇ«lsungr) was the son of Rerir and the eponymous ancestor of the ill-fortuned VÃ¶lsung clan (VÇ«lsungar), which includes the well known Norse hero SigurÃ°. He was murdered by the Geatish king Siggeir and later avenged by one of his sons, Sigmund, and his daughter Signy, who was married to Siggeir.