Ole Larson's Folks

Category: Ancient History

In my articles on ancient history (1, 2, and 3), I had a lot of fun claiming the great-grandparenthood of famous and infamous figures such as Saint Olaf, William the Conqueror, Charlemagne, Isabella the She-Wolf, Old King Cole, and the emperor Claudius, among many others. As I have already admitted…

Disclaimer To assert, as I do in this series, that these ancient figures were my ancestors, is not good genealogical practice, since none of the popular genealogies linking me to them are backed up by reliable sources. Hell, no such sources even exist for what we call the Dark Ages…