John (Jón in Icelandic)
Fitzgerald (name of Norman origin: fis de Gérald. The Icelandic construction is an adaptation of the French 'fils' (Fis-), like 'Mag-' (son) in the Irish Icelandic name Magbjóður (MacBeth) and 'Geirvaldur' (Gerald)
Kennedy (name has different etymologies, the first element could be ceann (head), which was icelandicized in the Old Literature as Kjann-. The second element is uncertain and adapted as -aður.
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