Finnshavn - The origin of a kennel name. My first Norwegian Elkhound was Vakker-Lund's Finn Eric, known to his
friends as Finn. My first litter of puppies were out of Finn. A Norwegian friend on the University of Western Ontario
campus suggested Finnshavn, which, in Norse, broke down to "Finn's havn". The word havn (in the english spelling, haven)
meaning a home or a harbor. Didn't every seafaring Norseman have his home on a harbor? Now, onto correct pronunciation:
It is Finns havn, with the long nordic a...maybe if you read it as Finns haauvn you will get it right. But please, no
'sh' sound in the middle, the 's' and 'h' are in different syllables, and elkhounds don't appreciate being shaved, eh!
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