Hrollager Rognvaldsson - Two Hrollaugs?

Started by Harald Tveit Alvestrand on Wednesday, April 11, 2018
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4/11/2018 at 1:40 PM

We seem to have a duplication of this guy:

Hrollager Rognvaldsson

https://www.geni.com/people/Hrollaug-Eyjafjörður-Íslands/6000000001...

Both MP. According to the profiles, one took land in France, the other in Iceland.
Snorre plainly says that Ragnvald had 6 sons - 3 by "frille" and 3 by the daughter of Rolf Nesja. There's no room for another Rollaugh in that chart.

The question is as usual: To merge or not to merge?

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4/11/2018 at 1:53 PM

One of them is a singe managed profile. May be Pam should answer whiy it is so unique to have it as a MP?

The other one have a schematic overview as a photo from Snorre showing what we have as facts about this person.

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4/12/2018 at 8:19 PM

If that's supposed to be Rollo of Normandy, there are unresolved questions about his ancestry - descent from Rognvald is "traditional", but an older tradition gave his father's name as "Ketil" and there's no good reason to think that either one is historically accurate. http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/NORMANDY.htm#_Toc479325753

An attempt to sort things out via Y-DNA research was foiled when it was discovered that someone had been playing shell-and-pea with ancestral remains and nobody was where they were supposed to be.

4/13/2018 at 1:34 AM

The one Pam PM'd seemed to be linked to the French Rollo tradition, while the other one was strictly linked to the Snorre tradition. That made me wonder - I hadn't seen documentation of a Hrollaug linked to France before.

We might want to unlink the "French" one from Ragnvald, and just leave his relationship to Rollo as a note in the profile.

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