Hey Swedes

[The Brain]

Btw, as you may or may not have noticed "Karl-Alfred" is the Swedish name for Popeye.

[The Brain]

Btw, can also be Carl Alfred Wallin.

US Patent 131,237 was interesting but I suppose it's not him...

[Valmy]

I don't remember what the exact question is and I'm not rereading the thread, but FWIW:

Since he had a family name patronymics probably wouldn't be used a lot/at all. At least that's my impression from my own family history. On one parent's side there was no family name until modern times so patronymics were used, on the other parent's side there was a family name and patronymics weren't used AFAIK.

The question is simply about this Swede my wife is descended from.  Just trying to find his parents right now.

OK good to know.  Karl/Carl Alfred Wallin it is.  Unfortunately that sounds like a pretty common name.

Btw, as you may or may not have noticed "Karl-Alfred" is the Swedish name for Popeye.

Sweet!

[Admiral Yi]

I'll bite.  Why do Swedes call Popeye "Karl Alfred?"

[Valmy]

Karl Alfredsson from Wallin, Sweden?

Oh if only I were so lucky.  But there is no town called Wallin in Sweden that I know of.

[The Brain]

I'll bite.  Why do Swedes call Popeye "Karl Alfred?"

I don't know if it is known. Apparently (according to the internet) the first few years he was called Fiffiga Filip (Clever Filip) but then it was changed to Karl-Alfred. The long dead publishers of long defunct magazine Tidsfördrif would be the ones to ask.

[The Brain]

Btw random googling only gave me K/Carl Alfred Wallins born in 1830, 1860 (or was it 50?) and 1880 (and later). I don't know when the patent guy was born but the patent is from 1872.

[Valmy]

Btw random googling only gave me K/Carl Alfred Wallins born in 1830, 1860 (or was it 50?) and 1880 (and later). I don't know when the patent guy was born but the patent is from 1872.

Surely there was at least one K/Carl Alfred Wallin born in Sweden in November of 1840.  In fact it would be very helpful if there was exactly one.

[Syt]

I'll bite.  Why do Swedes call Popeye "Karl Alfred?"

I don't know if it is known. Apparently (according to the internet) the first few years he was called Fiffiga Filip (Clever Filip) but then it was changed to Karl-Alfred. The long dead publishers of long defunct magazine Tidsfördrif would be the ones to ask.

Do you also call Donald Duck Kalle Anka, like the Danes do?

[Threviel]

I'll bite.  Why do Swedes call Popeye "Karl Alfred?"

I don't know if it is known. Apparently (according to the internet) the first few years he was called Fiffiga Filip (Clever Filip) but then it was changed to Karl-Alfred. The long dead publishers of long defunct magazine Tidsfördrif would be the ones to ask.

Do you also call Donald Duck Kalle Anka, like the Danes do?

We call him Kalle Anka (Charley Duck), the Danes know him as Anders And (Anders Duck).