Did you ever think about how people got their surnames (family names)? Did you ever ____who was the first person to have your surname?

      Many modern British surnames go ____ to the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons who ruled England for 300 years, until 1066 AD. During those ____，people just had one name. To tell each person apart, the Anglo-Saxons added  , ____ the place a person came from or the job they did to their first name. For example, a lady called Agatha ____ the town of Blackburn could be called Agatha Blackburn.　　

      The Vikings, on the other hand, ____ the name of a person's father or mother. So Erik Jonsson was the son of a man named Jon. Many Viking men ____ had nicknames (绰号). These used to mean the opposite of what the person was actually like. For example, John Short could be a very ____ man, or Erik Wise could be a man who was not very clever!

       So, next time someone tells you their surname, stop and think for a minute. It might tell you ____ about their ancestors(祖先) from centuries ago!