Guess the Map IX: The Richese are no match

[Goodfella]

Well then I'm submitting a formal request for some sort of hint.

 

[Borachio]

Does it have anything to do with planet Earth?

 

[madviking]

no one's getting closer

Well then I'm submitting a formal request for some sort of hint.

it's cultural.

hungary and hungary's group should helpful

 

[Kyriakos]

About movies/language/subtitles or similar?

You made the map yourself, i assume, Dr.Watson?

 

[madviking]

i adapted the map from another map i saw.

 

[Pangur Bán]

Is this map an attempt to show the distribution of naming systems? Formation of names, patronymics and so on? So green is the Russian system with given name, patronymic, family name / surname, light blue the Iceland given name / patronym, purple given names, surname, red given name, surname father-mother, and so on?

 

[madviking]

ding ding ding

 

[Kyriakos]

Hmmm, actually patronymic is not given here unless asked in some official document (eg identity card, and then mother's name is also asked for). So it is not the same as in Russia where (from Russian literature) i am also aware that people have a three-part name (first name, patronym, family name). Here it is just first name- family name

In ancient Greece it was given name + patronymic, though, eg Aristeides Lysimachou (Aristeides, son of Lysimachos).

 

[Borachio]

Ah. Yes. (Well, I never. Fancy that.)

But Iceland's system is more complicated than that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_name

Which is why the Reykjavik phone book is ordered by first names.

 

[Takhisis]

Which are, technically, the only 'names' people have, unless they have double names.

 

[Goodfella]

Anyone?

 

[Pangur Bán]

OK, here you go, not too difficult:

 

[Kyriakos]

OK, here you go, not too difficult:

Does pink even mean anything?

And i am pretty sure there is nothing special about the northermost tip of Archagelsk which you left blank

(Cool Serbia-Montenegro though ).

 

[Tahuti]

Distribution of haplogroup R1b?

 

[Pangur Bán]

@Kaiserguard, nope. @Kyriakos, yes. Pink means something.

 

[Gelion]

Something agricultural?

 

[Pangur Bán]

Not agricultural, but going in a better direction.

 

[Borachio]

Ground water?

 

[Kyriakos]

^Lake Geneva and those large rivers in southern France would have been factored in (also iirc there was some 'polandball' posted about Jordan discovering a source of water).

 

[Pangur Bán]

Well, I can rule that out. Map does relate to the 'natural world' though.