I am a lousy synctactician but I don’t think the ’s in Scandinavian is a gentive case marker anymore. Why,? because it is attached to phrases not words. We don’t say **(Erik)s den (röde)s skägg” but (Erik den röde)s skägg.
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That's true in English too! But the fact that Swedish has the same behaviour and survives fine spelling it without the apostrophe only reinforces the original point.
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