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Although Waage is indeed a Danish word, and used in Norway. Having the name doesn't mean your family dates back to Danish Colialism, unless by this term you are speaking of the general theory that the Nordic people first settled Denmark and embark across the Skatterak into Sweden and Norway. Waage was a typical spelling of the name Vaage or Våge (even the dialect name Vågå in Oppland Norway with their evening tendency with vowells, thus the two åes). In Norway the name means simply split in the rocks in the form of a V doulbe V (W). If you were from a farm by the name of Waage or Vaage or modern spelling Våge you took that name (as an address really, because it was not until the early part of the last century that Norway did away fully with the patrinomic system of son and daughter, when you moved to another farm you took that farm name (address)) We have a similar word in English called Wake, like Wake behind a boat, the v shape in the water, origins the same. Likewise in Iceland the farm name is possible, although they still live mainly under the patrinomic system, but to get to the right Ola Olasson you may say Ole Olasson i Vágínum or something of the sort, sorry my Icelandic is aweful. So I hope this helps with an understanding of other Nordic naming systems, and the problem there is in overemphasizing a Danish influence. It is true with many borgeous families the Denmark sent particulary to Norway that we see truly Danish names like Friis, Ravn, Langemose etc. but actually there are more German names from this period than true Danish. Take Care David Strommen
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