Probably all done to try to be more epic and harken to olde world folklore is my guess. America has tons of Scandinavian, Dutch, and especially German immigrants who have ancestors with crazy names like Ignatz, Johannes, Franz which might sound ordinary to you. But to most Americans, give a sense of days gone by like ww2 and ww1 and earlier.
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Probably all done to try to be more epic and harken to olde world folklore is my guess. America has tons of Scandinavian, Dutch, and especially German immigrants who have ancestors with crazy names like Ignatz, Johannes, Franz which might sound ordinary to you. But to most Americans, give a sense of days gone by like ww2 and ww1 and earlier.