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The Frozen Historical Reference Guide
Last updated: September 29, 2021
As I've written fics over the last year in the Frozen universe, I've accumulated an awful lot of random information about Scandinavia and the world during that time period. This isn't a fic, but a research guide of stuff I've found that may help you, the Frozen author, when you're writing and dealing with the canon period. Some of the canon items from the movies that are anachronisms are also noted.
The Canon Period: 1843-1846
From the Disney Fandom wiki:
The time period for Frozen is set in July 1843.[3] In the upper left-hand corner of the geographical map shown in Frozen II, it is suggested by a set of Roman numerals that the year in which Agnarr and Iduna's ship sank was 1840. (MDCCCXL is the exact numeral order.) Oaken's statement, "A real howler in July, yes?", confirms the story is set in July. Given that Frozen takes place three years after the shipwreck, the events of Frozen take place in July 1843.[4] Frozen Fever takes place almost a year later on Anna's nineteenth birthday in 1844. It is implied that Olaf's Frozen Adventure would take place in December 1843 or the first year that the castle's gates were open again. And the time period for Frozen II would be in November 1846.
Source: https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Arendelle
The map in Frozen Fever, which is a different map than the one in Frozen 2, is also dated 1840.
Elsa would have been born in 1822, Anna in 1825.
Jennifer Lee confirmed on Twitter that Hans was 23 in Frozen 1, making his birth in 1820.
Source: https://twitter.com/alittlejelee/status/406087095321497600
Kristoff and Elsa are the same age, according to Jennifer Lee.
Source: https://twitter.com/alittlejelee/status/406643643340955648
Table of Contents
- Canon Period
- Behaviors
- Clothing
- Communications
- Countries
- Education
- Food and Beverage
- Health and Welfare
- Language
- Materials
- Math and Science
- Medicine
- Pets and Animals
- Plumbing and Toilets
- Sports and Leisure
- Weapons
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