Origins.

Fluks, H.W. H.W.Fluks at kpn.com
Tue Nov 6 13:45:30 CET 2001


Dim: you write a lot. A few comments:

> 1)Flintheart Glomgold.The Southafrican businessman with the 
> Scotish accent 

Who says he has a Scottish accent? Note that the Ducktales Glomgold is a
*different* character, since that one comes from Scotland.

> he is a Boer.Jan van Riebeek's Boers had arrived on 
> 1652.Among them,possibly 
> Flintheart's ancestors from Holland.

Or they mingled with other immigrants. Glomgold is not a Dutch name.

> Surching about Dutch Ducks I found in 
> "The Last Voyage of Ringtail Van Dykke"(H 8841)

Van Dukke.

> that a brunch of the McDucks 
> was active in the Spanish Low Lands at least till 1588

Note that in those days, Holland was "The Spanish Low Lands" (along with
present-day Belgium). So there's no reason to make a connection to Spain.
Spain just was the "owner" of Holland.

> and establishes a Spanish brunch

Note that a "bruch" is when you eat. Trees have *branches*.

--Harry.



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