Talk:Jonas Bronck

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The province of Skåne belonged to Denmark until it came to Sweden in 1658 as a consequence of the Treaty of Roskilde. Therefore Jonas Bronck was Danish, speaking a Scanian dialect somewhere in between of Danish and Swedish. --Proofreader 18:44, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

It is true that Skåne was Danish at the time, but Sävsjö (and Bronck's birthplace) is in Småland and therefore in Sweden then as now. I'll correct this. The dialect is irrelevant, but would have been a Småland dialect. --CodeGeneratR 00:53, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Eric the Red & JB

"Many people of Scandinavian descent claim that Jonas Bronck himself was descended from Eric the Red and Leif Ericson, who colonised the area. There is also some small archeological evidence suggesting this." - which archeological evidence suggest JB was a decendent of Eric the Red? --62.242.60.122 10:57, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

I removed the above clause from the article. If there is any "evidence", it should be mentioned and sourced.--CodeGeneratR 08:11, 21 November 2006 (UTC)