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The name Rudd comes from the Norse for Red and is actually pronounced Rookg rather then Rudd. The name Rudd (or Red) in the lineage of "Eric the Red" the Viking Warrior that was famed with discovering Iceland. Descendant of Eric the Red, invaded Scotland and England during Viking raids, but some settled and the name spread to Wales and Ireland too, other spread through Europe. It is said that the Rudd descendants to spread from a place called rudston in Yorkshire, where out side of a village of rudston lies a Monolith that is meant to mark the meeting place of the Rudd's.

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