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"Martyntje" isn't a rare variant, it's an old-fashioned transliteration. "Y" is "IJ" in cursive form, & was commonly used before Dutch orthography was simplified in the 1800s. "IJ" in Dutch is its own letter (pronounced like a very broad [AI], like the vowel sound in "bright", but almost with a Southern drawl). So you might see in written form "Martijn" or "Martyn" & they would be seen as the same spelling, except that in the second the individual letters of "ij" are joined.