Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-3038174-20130429210540/@comment-24674051-20141003171053

One thing that I like about Anna and David's interaction, is it helps to give us at least a sense of when the Frozen story fits into the larger timeline. We know that this is before Rumple sends him in the direction to be adopted by George, probably by at least a year. (Assumption here is that he just learns sword play from Anna, and would need at least a year to be comfortable enough to handle himself the way he did in "The Shepherd".) And I would guess that there is at least a year between David's adoption by George and David meeting Snow (this is just my guess though). So it is somewhere in this 2 year period that Elsa is trapped in the Urn.