 He has a Norwegian mother and a Sicilian father, and physically resembles Anthony Quinn.In a section printed in the introductions of volumes I and II of the trilogy, though not reprinted in the single volume compilation, the narrator mentions that he has a raft of Irish relatives in Ohio named McGee and Marlowe.Wilson also implies in "The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles" that Hagbard is related to one of the central characters, Sigismundo Celine.