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From: Ulf Larsson <>
Subject: Re: CONTINUING TO KICK AROUND POOR OLD ROLLO
Date: 6 Jul 1995 16:09:16 GMT


(Todd A. Farmerie) wrote:
>
>In a previous article, (Ulf Larsson) says:
>
>>As you see there is plenty of room for Ragnar, Sigurd, Invar, Rollo, Gorm
>>e.t.c. in
>>this context. If Dudo is right, they all belong to the loosing royal family
>>(or losing branch of the royal family). And it would be natural that they
>>then turned abroad to regain the honour of their famliy.
>>
>
>There is room, but they also could all have been unrelated vikings, and not
>of the royal line.
>
>>Historians see Gorm the old as the founder of a new dynasty,
>>but maybe it is the "Haraldssons" that after a century returns to power!
>
>Again possible, but Denmark had been in limbo, with at least two different
>interloping families, since the last of the Godfredsons, while the
>Haroldsons seem well settled in N. France and possibly Kiev by this time.
>I prefer to look at Gorm the old as another new guy.
>
Yes, it was only a wild speculation on my part. However as the the sceme
for giving names was often rather fixed, i.e. the first son got his paternal
granfathers name unless he still lived othervise his maternal grandfathers
e.t.c.. This means that the same names often were repeted in a family!
But the occurence of Haralds and Gorms in both families is no proof
whatsoever that these families are related to each other!

Ulf

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