Ólafur Guðröðarson - Father Son birth dates

Started by Private User on Tuesday, August 6, 2019
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Private User
8/6/2019 at 3:45 PM

How can it be? Olafur is said to have been born in 740, but go to his father's profile .. which says HE, the father, was born in 738? Something's rotten in the State of Denmark.

Private User
8/6/2019 at 4:35 PM

That does stink some, but it could just be a clerical or transcriptional error. The old records were handwritten (if not oral) and can be very hard to read or lost in translation sometimes. Printers also make loads of mistakes (I know because I worked for one, plus I often find errors in published books). So although inconsistent chronologically, on paper, they ''could'' still be father and son.

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