From: mbottorff@lshelby.com   
      
   John W Kennedy  wrote:   
      
   > > (My hero's father was actually Scandinavian, but I haven't figured out   
   > > from which part of Scandinavia yet -- which is part of the reason my   
   > > hero has not been named.  Maybe I'll go for him somethingly relatively   
   > > generic like Daniel Erikson, and then never specify what his father's   
   > > original nationality was.)   
   >   
   > Avoid the entire question if you don't want to have to deal with what   
   > happened to the Kalmar Union.   
      
   I don't mind dealing with what happened to the Kalmar Union, but I don't   
   think that, if it still existed, the Kalmar Union would have much impact   
   on English/American settlers in Ohio in 1800.  Not unless it decided to   
   play a major role in their recent war for independence, and I have yet   
   to come up with any reason why it would.   
      
   Also, since all the parts of the union continued to retain a national   
   identity, I think the father would likely have self-identified as being   
   from Sweden or Norway etc, etc, rather than saying he was from "the   
   Kalmar Union".   
      
      
      
      
      
      
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