I looked up the source and the translation of Saxo says specifically, "Once she had learnt of this, the queen ((Adela)) returned to her own country with her young son, leaving behind twin daughters: one of them, Ingerd, married Folke, an aristocrat of Swedish, and bore him sons, Bengt and Cnut;", so unless that translation is horribly flawed the text seems clear that Adela was their mother also. https://books.google.com/books?id=MbK6BwAAQBAJ

On Friday, August 25, 2017 at 5:28:58 PM UTC-4, Katherine Kennedy wrote: > I looked up the source and the translation of Saxo says specifically, "Once she had learnt of this, the queen ((Adela)) returned to her own country with her young son, leaving behind twin daughters: one of them, Ingerd, married Folke, an aristocrat of Swedish, and bore him sons, Bengt and Cnut;", so unless that translation is horribly flawed the text seems clear that Adela was their mother also. > https://books.google.com/books?id=MbK6BwAAQBAJ It should read "Folke, an aristocrat of Swedish descent", my apologies.

On Friday, August 25, 2017 at 2:28:58 PM UTC-7, Katherine Kennedy wrote: > I looked up the source and the translation of Saxo says specifically, "Once she had learnt of this, the queen ((Adela)) returned to her own country with her young son, leaving behind twin daughters: one of them, Ingerd, married Folke, an aristocrat of Swedish, and bore him sons, Bengt and Cnut;", so unless that translation is horribly flawed the text seems clear that Adela was their mother also. > https://books.google.com/books?id=MbK6BwAAQBAJ This link go to "No Ebook available" How were you able to read it

Will I'd say it depends in the country you are.

On 26-Aug-17 7:28 AM, Katherine Kennedy wrote: > I looked up the source and the translation of Saxo says specifically, "Once she had learnt of this, the queen ((Adela)) returned to her own country with her young son, leaving behind twin daughters: one of them, Ingerd, married Folke, an aristocrat of Swedish, and bore him sons, Bengt and Cnut;", so unless that translation is horribly flawed the text seems clear that Adela was their mother also. > https://books.google.com/books?id=MbK6BwAAQBAJ The translation is accurate - the Latin text (on the preceding page, vol ii p. 858) reads: 'Hec audiens [Adela] regina patriam cum filio impubere repetit, geminis post se relictis filiabus. Ex quibus Ingertha Folconi, Suetice gentis nobilissimo, nupta Benedictum Kanutumque filios habuit ...'. Saxo went on to report that the other twin, Cecilia, married Erik, prefect of Gotland, and had sons named Cnut and Karl from whom there were many descendants of this distinguished lineage ('Verum ex Caecilie matrimonio Ericus, Gothorum prefectus, Kanutum cum Karolo procreauit. Ex quibus generosissimarum imaginum numerosa posteritas clara propinquitatis serie coherens emersit.') Since they were twins and one of them had a son named Karl, it is more than highly likely that they were full-sisters to Charles the Good of Flanders. Also one of them, probably Cecilia, was mother of Arnold who was a contender to succeed as count of Flanders after the murder of Charles. Peter Stewart