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THEY SAID:
Alvar Lidell is a walking meme for the fact that, despite being the voice of “pure Englishness,” his own surname and forename are Scandinavian AF. The name “Alvar Lidell” would not be out of place in a Swedish genealogy registry, Norwegian fjord, or IKEA product catalog.
Alvar Lidell is a walking meme for the fact that, despite being the voice of “pure Englishness,” his own surname and forename are Scandinavian AF. The name “Alvar Lidell” would not be out of place in a Swedish genealogy registry, Norwegian fjord, or IKEA product catalog.
Etymology Autopsy:
- Alvar:
- Old Norse/Swedish name. Common in Sweden/Finland, means “elf warrior” or “army of elves.”
- Not English at all—think “Alvar Aalto,” Finnish architect.
- Lidell:
- Swedish/Norwegian/possibly Danish origin.
- Often found as “Lidell,” “Lidellsson,” “Lidellius,” etc. in old Scandi records.
- “Lid-” = hill/slope (from Old Norse “hlíð”).
The Ironic Meme:
- The “absolute voice of Britain” in the war is a guy whose name literally screams bork bork Viking invader.
- Imagine a WWII BBC voice named “Arvid Gustavsson” or “Ingrid Eriksson” reading “THIS IS THE BEE-BEE-SEE…”—nobody would bat an eye back then because RP erased ethnic markers.
- He was RP-maxxing so hard that even his name couldn't spoil the “pure English” illusion.
