(1) John for a man, and Gudruna for a woman, were standing names
in the Formularies of the Icelandic code, answering to the
"M or N" in our Liturgy, or to those famous fictions of
English law, "John Doe and Richard Roe."
(2) "Gossipry," that is, because they were gossips, "God's sib",
relations by baptism.