Sorry, folks, I can’ stop now. Just look at these:
And in old age, she looked just like my Jewish great-grandma without the Jewish nose:
I understand this is a coincidence – we have no Scandinavian ancestry that I’m aware of – but I find this strangely inspiring. Well, at least now I know what I will look like in old age.
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You do have a Scandinavian ancestry thanks to one or more of 30,000 Swedish soldiers of Karl XII.
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I just never thought any of my ancestors were there when the Swedes came. But yeah, I guess we are now discovering otherwise.
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Could the opposite be true? That Undset had Russian/ Ukrainian ancestry?
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May be SHE had some Jewish ancestry somewhere, who knows?
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She was very anti-Nazi during WWII and before, so I’ve been wondering.
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it’s also remarkable how little her physical appearance changed over the decades as she aged.
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