Family Tree (Titus/Dingus)

[Stefan Diös]

Briefly dropping by on my semi-vacation, I find myself arriving just in 
time for a question I can answer. Concerning the Swedish name/s of 
Scrooge's grandfather/s:


GILLES:

> >>>But the story doesn't stop there!!! Titus McDuck was translated Titus Von
>Anka into Swedish. And guess what was Dingus' translation? Titus Von Ankka
>too ! ! !


DON:

>  $crooge has two
>grandfathers, but the other is not named "McDuck". So, I'll bet the Swedish
>translator is a Duck expert (aren't you, Stefan?), and used that earlier
>name instead of my "Dingus". Good for him!!!!


Uh... well, yes, I was aware (through the Swedish edition of Gisle's book) 
that Scrooge's grandfather had indeed been named Titus in one old story, 
even though I didn't really know which story at the time when I 
"translated" Don's tree. So, as Don suggests, it seemed natural to use the 
same name. There are enough discrepancies anyway when you attempt a project 
like this, so every time you do find some previous source of referral, you 
happily cling to that opportunity whenever possible. I might add that the 
Swedish language clearly distinguishes between paternal and maternal 
grandfathers, so there was never a question whether this might have been 
the other grandpa. (Meaning: There was, for once, no need for the confusion 
we usually have with all the uncles in Duckburg!)


TOTALLY DIFFERENT SUBJECT:

While I'm writing, I seem to recall a question on DCML a while ago about 
the colors of Duckburg's soccer team. And I believe that somebody answered 
something like "Use whatever colors you like, just not red and yellow!". 
Well, I found this a bit odd, for as far as I know, the designated colors 
for this team ARE red and yellow nowadays, at least in Egmontland. Whenever 
the team appears there's a note to colorists to use red and yellow, and I 
think this usually comes through to the finished magazines at least in Sweden.

Maybe I misunderstood the question or the answer, or we might have another 
major mystery to solve... Oh, the constant plague of being a 
consistency-ridden Donaldist!



Stefan Dios
Malmo, Sweden