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Name:
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The clan McDuck |
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Origin:
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Scottish. |
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Known since:
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According to Scottish legends the clan McDuck can be followed back to 122 AD. By then an unknown member of the family sold rocks to the Romans who built the wall of Hadrian. |
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First known member of the family:
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Sir Eider McDuck (Around 880-946). He fell in a battle against the Saxons after his men deserted him because he only paid 30 copper-pieces per hour. |
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First family member to appear:
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Scrooge McDuck in 1947 in Christmas On Bear Mountain. |
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First family member created by:
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Carl Barks |
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The name for McDuck in some other languages:
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| Danish: |
von And-Klanen |
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| Dutch (in the Netherlands): |
McDuck clan |
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| Finnish: |
MacAnkan Klaani |
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| French: |
Le clan McPicsou | Mac Picsou |
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| German: |
Der Clan der Ducks | Der Duck-Clan | Schottiche Linie |
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| Italian: |
Il clan de' Paperoni |
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| Norwegian: |
McDuck-klanen |
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| Portuguese: |
Clã Mac Patinhas (in Brazil). |
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| Spanish (in Spain): |
El clan McPato |
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| Swedish: |
Klanen von Anka |
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History:
Uncle $crooge's family. Created by Carl Barks in 1947. The McDucks is a very old, and in earlier times a very rich Scottish Clan belonging to the aristocracy. The first known McDuck is (according to Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree) Eider McDuck (880-946). But, in some of his sketches Don Rosa shows the history of the Clan McDuck from 122 AD and until 1877 when Uncle $crooge is 10 years old. In these sketches Don Rosa intended to show: "that a McDuck and his stinginess was present at all the great moments of Scottish history".
In those sketches Don Rosa also shows that the Clan used to spell their name the Gaelic way; MacDuich until 1071 when they changed the spelling of their name to the well known McDuck. Like Uncle $crooge, the old McDucks were also very mean (Don Rosa in: Life and Times...part V). When $crooge was born in 1867, the McDuck family was poor (but they still owned their Castle at Dismal Downs) and lived in Glasgow.
Notice that in Finland the clan and all it's members but $crooge is still called McAnkka while the Mc is lacking in Uncle $crooge last name. He is thus called Ankka (just like Donald). The reason for this is probably that a name like McAnkka was considered to strange and to un-Finnish when the Aku Ankka magazine was started up in 1950. Also in the Netherlands the prefix "Mc" is used in the name of the Clan while it seems that $crooge in the Dutch translations, dropped the "Mc" when he emigrated to America. The "Mc" or another prefix like "von" seems never to be used in German.
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