Reaction to Sigvald, Rob, Kriton, Rich and about Ludwig

[M.J. Prior]

Sigvald:
> Could anyone please post a list showing every "relative" who meet 
> Ludwig on the train station? 

The first panel of that story can be seen at Harry's site:
> {HYPERLINK "http://dd50.inducks.org/xeng1963.html"}http://dd50.inducks.org/xeng1963.html 

The 'relatives' are: Donald, Daisy, Gladstone, Gus, Grandma, $crooge, 
Gyro, Huey and Louie. (It must be the same story.)

Rob:
> When people emigrate to faraway lands that speak foreign languages, 
> they often change their family names to fit the new language of their 
> adopted country. 

Like I said about dr. Emmett Brown. 
What *is* the anglicised form of Klein? Kline?

Kriton: 
> incorrectly associating the word "wizened" with the word "wise". 

But there must be an etymological connection, mustn't there? The 
pronunciation may not be the same (alright: *isn't* the same) but 
associating the two is maybe not such a mistake after all. "Wizard" also 
has a short vowel. Ask Harry. No, the other one. (uh-huh, saw-ree)

Rich Bellacera:
> However Barks, Van Horn and others have represented Gyro as 
> belonging on a branch of the Duck family.

Has Barks? How did he make this clear, I mean: where did he mention 
it? (Just because I'm curious.)

What I meant in my previous mail was this: Ludwig is only supposed to 
be married to Matilda for three reasons. 1) He's said to be Donald's 
uncle. 2) Carl Barks used him once in a one-page-gag. 3) Don Rosa 
likes him as a character. 
If it wasn't for the second reason, Don Rosa probably would never have 
wanted to include Ludwig in his Family Tree and  probably never have 
suggested this marriage. I hardly doubt if anyone else would have come 
up with the idea, or if  there would then have been put so much weight to 
this matter.
Remember that Matilda only was in Barks original tree because Barks 
needed Gladstone to be related to both Grandma and $crooge. (Matilda 
and her husband Goosetave fostered Gladstone after his real parents, 
Daphne and Luke, had died from over-eating at a free-lunch picknick. I 
still think that this has happened to Daphne and Goosetave, who are 
nowadays, after Rosa's Tree, considered to be Gladstone's parents.)

Michiel Prior.
	
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