Grandma Duck is the mother of Donald

Lorenzo Breda lorenzo at lbreda.com
Tue May 15 14:10:35 CEST 2018


Il giorno mar 15 mag 2018 alle ore 13:13 Pim Heeman <phm at inducks.org> ha
scritto:

> In (mostly of Dutch origin) comics in the Netherlands, Scrooge is a
brother
> of Grandma Duck. When translating Life of Scrooge in Dutch, the
> editors/translator gave Dumbella Duck the name 'Doortje', an alternative
> form of the Dutch name of Grandma Duck, 'Dora', since they thought
Dumbella
> Duck and Grandma Duck were the same person! In later episodes, it turns
out
> this was wrong, but then the name was already made up. Despite that, in a
> recent Dutch weekly, Grandma Duck stills calls Scrooge with 'broerlief' (=
> 'dear brother').

Dumbella is the sister of Donald Duck. Did you mean Hortense McDuck?


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