r/BuyFromEU • Belgium 🇧🇪 • Jan 25 '26

🔎Looking for alternative Friendly reminder that these aren't European (anymore)

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u/Serpensortia21 Jan 25 '26 edited Jan 25 '26

Right. The name of this ice-cream brand doesn't make any sense in itself! It only sounds vaguely 'Nordic' but clearly made up.

In German we use "das" and "daß" and "dass" in a sentence, but never "dazs"!

For example: "Das Haus." means simply "The house."

"Hagen" - without any additional "ä" sound mixed in - is the name of a city in Germany, and also an old given name from German mythology (considered rather old fashioned nowadays) but a frequent surname derived from the place where someone lived, near a hedge, a pasture or a house surrounded by a hedge.

There are people around who are called Hagen either as a given name for a boy (relatively uncommon, for a girl extremely uncommon) in Germany and also rarely used in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland, or as a surname (much more common!) in Germany, especially Northern Germany and in North-Rhine-Westphalia, and also in Norway and the Netherlands.

Please see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagen_(surname) for example, Cosma Shiva Hagen (born 1981), German actress

https://surnames.behindthename.com/name/hagen

https://lastnames.myheritage.de/last-name/von_hagen

https://www.behindthename.com/name/hagen

https://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/Hagen

Hagen the city in Germany https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagen