# Talk:Battle of Brunanburh (poem)

Alexandra Hennessey Olsen
-- Cirt (talk) 15:58, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

This review is transcluded from Talk:Battle of Brunanburh (poem)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.
Reviewer: -- Cirt (talk) 16:30, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
I will review this article. -- Cirt (talk) 16:30, 21 May 2011 (UTC)


### Good article nomination on hold
This article's Good Article promotion has been put on hold. During review, some issues were discovered that can be resolved without a major re-write.  This is how the article, as of May 21, 2011, compares against the  six good article criteria:

1. Well written?: Writing quality is pretty good. I would certainly recommend going for Peer Review after the GA Review is over one way or the other, and soliciting input from previously uninvolved users for copyediting, and perhaps at WP:GOCE, and/or posting to talk pages of relevant WikiProjects.
2. Factually accurate?: Duly cited throughout to WP:RS sources, no issues here.
3. Broad in coverage?:
Lede/intro - needs to be expanded. Per WP:LEAD, lede should summarize entire article's contents, and function as a standalone piece.
Small paragraphs, some small paragraphs in Style and tone and Editions and translations. Can these be merged or expanded upon?
4. Neutral point of view?: Neutral tone throughout, no issues here.
5. Article stability? No issues with stability.
6. Images?: No images used, no issues here.
Please address these matters soon and then leave a note here showing how they have been resolved.  After 48 hours the article should be reviewed again.  If these issues are not addressed within 7 days, the article may be failed without further notice.  Thank you for your work so far. -- Cirt (talk) 16:59, 21 May 2011 (UTC)


### GA passed
In response to your previous questions: yes. Drmies (talk) 01:56, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for addressing the issues raised during the GA Review. Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 01:12, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

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Jorge Luis Borges: "The poem, though clearly written by a Christian, is infused with the ancient Germanic heroic spirit. After describing  the battle, the poet pauses with obvious delight at the crow, with  his beak “as hard as a horn,” that eats, devours, the corpses of men. And he also talks about “that grey beast in the forest,” about wolves that eat the corpses. All of this with a kind of joy. Anlaf and Constantine, according to the Germanic ethic, should have made sure they died in the battle they lost. It was disgraceful that they were saved, that they came out of it alive." Ghirla-трёп- 10:47, 12 January 2020 (UTC)