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According to Bock's autobiographical The Bock Saga, he was born as the result of an incestuous relationship between sea-captain Knut Victor Boxström ( 1860 – 1942 ), who would have been 81 years old at the time, and his daughter Rhea, 42.

Knut's 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 family-saga about heathen times to the public eye.

Knut Victor Boxström died shortly after Ior's baptism, one month after his birth.

Consequently he was adopted by Rhea's 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 Böxström-Svedlin and Bror Svedlin.

According to Londen, official adoption documents in the National Archive in Helsinki prove that Ior's biological mother was a 23 years old gardening instructor in Porvoo.

His father was said to be a Spanish sailor.

After Bock's death a family friend from Sibbo, quoting her mother, supported the adoption claims.

In 2003, Bock had answered Londen's queries by explaining that the adoption-theme was a necessary precaution from his mother to hide the incestuous act that led to his birth.