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From: (Albert B. Bach)
Subject: Re: Robert I of Flanders, Robert II Capet & Russian connection?
Date: 1 Jul 2001 23:32:14 -0700
References: <6391f2da.0106290758.4f0f327c@posting.google.com>, <3a69c867.0107010145.6c4b95f4@posting.google.com>, <nc1ujt89hqtbhp67odnhafkkljcik7boio@4ax.com>


Thanks.

Brant Gibbard <> wrote in message news:<>...
> On 1 Jul 2001 02:45:50 -0700, (Albert B. Bach)
> wrote:
>
>
> >Not to the Rus. Igor Rurikovich, GrandPrince of Kiev in 912, and
> >ancestor of the Rurikids, is the cousin Gongu-Hrolf, Count of Rouen in
> >911, (and ancestor of the Dukes of Normandy, he being aka Robert I).
>
> No, because Hrolf the Ganger and Rollo of Normandy are not the same
> person. The Orkneyinga Saga written about 300 years after the fact
> claims that they are, but all available contemporary evidence suggests
> otherwise. Rollo is more likely to have been Danish than Norwegian, and
> his parentage is completely unknown. Others on this list can give more
> details about this than I can.
>
>
> Brant Gibbard
>
> http://home.inforamp.net/~bgibbard/gen
> Toronto, ON

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