i got it narrowed down to four possibilities:
-- a Njords is the opposite of fjord, so it must be some sort of big mountain, and Hakarl must be the location of Thor's house
-- it's the name of some obscure Scandinavian writer whose books are as gloomy as their winter
-- it is the Hakarl that belongs to a guy named Njord, minus the appropriate punctuation
-- a type of fish
i am expecting the answer to be delivered to me when i open my next Chinese fortune cookie.
Despite what Tangosz said in the post above mine, I have it on good authority that the team wasn't originally going to be named that at all, but one of the bench-warmers was a huge Monty Python fan (and, thus, lacked the requisite ability to play basketball) and thought it would be cool to say he was "Pining for the Fjords" but not actually dead. Earwax being what it is for Tangosz, he thought it was Njords and decided to go from there.