(Hur många generationer går att komma bakåt i tiden?)
Jag hittade följande i dagens Daily Mail i Answers to Correspondents; den ursprungliga frågan var samma som rubriken på den här diskussionen. Det skulle vara intressant att höra vad ni andra tror om svaret från en dam i Lanarkshire:
Before my mother, who was Faroese and a Viking descendent, died in 1981, she gave me a copy of her family tree, which had been prepared by Justice Jon Pjetturson from the Genealogy Register in Reykjavik, Iceland, in April 1875.
The earliest name in this document was that of my great-grandfather, Jon Gudmundsson Effersoe, who was born in Iceland in 1784 and died in 1866 in the Faroe Islands.
The line (sometimes through females) goes back to the Norwegian Vikings who sailed to Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, starting roughly in the eighth century and settling during the next 200 to 300 years.
Actual dates in my family tree are difficult to determine, but Olaf The White and his son Thorstein The Red, who were rulers in the Hebrides and Scotland, are 29 and 28 generations removed from my great-grandfather, and are charted in history at about 890AD.
The first man to settle in the Faroe Islands was Grimur Kamban, who is shown in the family tree as 32 generations removed from my great-grandfather, which would therefore be about 800AD.
In Iceland, the saga writer Snorri Sturluson is 20 generations removed and he is known to have lived from 1178 to 1241.
I have since brought the family tree up to date for the benefit of my ten grandchildren.
Ann Little
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