Ior Bock

Ior Bock was a Swedishspeaking Finnish tour guide, actor, mythologist and eccentric. Ior Bock was a colourful media personality and became a very popular tour guide at the island fortress of Suomenlinna, where he worked from 1973 to 1998.

According to Bocks autobiographical The Bock Saga, he was born as the result of an incestuous relationship between seacaptain Knut Victor Boxstrm , who would have been 81 years old at the time, and his daughter Rhea, 42. Knuts only son had been killed in the Finnish Civil War in 1918, and this was a desperate measure to continue the male line and bring the extensive familysaga about heathen times to the public eye. Knut Victor Boxstrm died shortly after Iors baptism, one month after his birth. Consequently, he was adopted by Rheas husband, Bror Gustaf Bertil Svedlin. In 2004 the freelance journalist Magnus Londen published an article where he claimed that Ior Bock was actually an adopted son of Rhea BxstrmSvedlin and Bror Svedlin. According to Londen, official adoption documents in the National Archive in Helsinki prove that Iors biological mother was ayears old gardening instructor in Porvoo. His father was said to be a Spanish sailor. After Bocks death a family friend from Sibbo,

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