Talk:Kalmar Union

message: Concerning the contention that there supposedly is a flag of the Kalmar Union, please refer to the discussion at Flags of the World. -- Mic 23:33, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Flag

message: I added a graphic of the royal lineages in Scandinavia around 1400. The graphic could use a translation from Danish to English but most people should be able to make sense of it. Anyone should feel free to make an english version.--Heelgrasper 03:48, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Graphic of the royal lineages 

message: I think a page is needed (or perhaps on this page) for a more cohesive description of the events leading up to Sweden leaving the Kalmar Union and afterwards. Right now, this content is spread out over the pages for Christian II of Denmark, the Stockholm Bloodbath, Christina Gyllenstierna and Gustav I of Sweden. There is a bit of redundancy between these pages, yet other parts of the story are missing. (I personally wrote up the Battle of Bogesund.) So I'd like to add some more info on this, but I'm not sure what to call it? There doesn't quite seem to be an accepted term for it. I've seen "Sten Sture den yngres krig mot Danmark" (Sten Sture the Younger's war on Denmark), which is what I used. Maybe it should be put under a "Sture party" (Sturepartiet) page. Comments? --BluePlatypus 22:28, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Sture party and Vasa's rise to power 

message: I have to delist this from a GA, there are no references, that's not right! Homestarmy 16:26, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for attempting to put this article on the right track, early in its history. This article is a case study in why articles should not be allowed to develop, from the point of their inception,  without sources.  We now have a morass of unreferenced material waiting for a saviour to return to it to attempt to determine, post hoc and forensically, what information is valid, and from whence it can be sourced. I would recommend a scholar in these matters, sources in hand, just begin replacing whole paragraphs, one by one, with well-written, well-sourced prose. For the dearth of sourcing is just one indicator of the article's poor quality; the writing is substandard as well.  Bonne chance.  71.239.87.100 (talk) 14:04, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Delisted

message: o  There was considerable political conflicts about the charters in which the Union was settled that are not included at the moment. 
o  I'm also missing that the important struggle between the Danes and the Hansa was over Danish aspirations to tax trade through the Sound. As a result of fighting the question was raised about compensation for losses due to Danish piracy.
o  Of some importance for the formation of the Union was the fact that the Swedish and Danish nobility owned land on both sides of the borders so they had a common interest with the Union. As the conflicts grew between the countries the nobility were forced by the kings to take sides losing the cross-border property. This also influenced increased polarization as time passed.
o  Aftermath: several wars were fought between Sweden and Denmark were the latters kings wanted to restore their kingdom. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.237.150.190 (talk) 12:28, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Subject for possible inclusion 

message: According to the article the Union was still existing formally until 1536, yet the opening paragraph claims it was dissolved in 1523, which is really when Sweden seceded. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.237.150.190 (talk) 12:28, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The union was never actually formally dissolved! (Just like the Korean war is still ongoing - formally:-). It was de facto dissolved when Gustav Vasa seized power - or - when Christian III declared in his accession charter that Norway should remain "a province of Denmark eternally" (Ledemodt af Danmarks Rige) I.e the new royal union succeeded the old Kalmar one. Depending on how you interpret the history H@r@ld 09:50, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dissolved 1523 or 1536? 

message: This is a good article.  65.95.42.189 (talk) 07:51, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Why? Mojowiha (talk) 09:09, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Praise 

message: ...text can be turned into sentences understandable to lay readers unversed in heraldic jargon.  Here is the note that was moved (with ref markup language removed for sake of appearance):
71.239.87.100 (talk) 03:40, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incomprehensible heraldic note moved here so that... 

message: explanation: WP:CITE. Why is this so hard? 
--dab (𒁳) 08:12, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: "explain reason of removal before removing"

message: The first paragraph of the "Inception" section names the King's birth name first as Olav, then says he assumed the name Oluf as king, and then calls him Olaf. These are all the same name in different Scandinavian varieties; he was known as Olav in his birth country Norway, Oluf in Denmark (and maybe throughout Kalmar for simplicity's sake) when he was King there, and Olof (not Olaf) in Sweden. I'm not sure if he was ever known as Olaf, or if that's simply his anglicized name (if so he should probably just be called that in this article), but I can't rule it out since that's also a variant of the same name even to this day. At any rate, name usage should probably be harmonized a little. --Spug (talk) 12:26, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree, have harmonized based on his article's title, Olaf II of Denmark – Þjarkur (talk) 14:45, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Olav/Olaf/Oluf/Olof 

message: Wouldn't the flag be the Danish flag with the swallowtail instead? Why specifically the royal standard - and why the one from around the 18th century? Hyraemous (talk) 13:32, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is the Danish flag in the successor nation the royal standard of the Danish monarchs? 

message: There were 6 monarchs of this union. The info box's arms for only 3 of them should be removed. Damned if I can figure out how to do that. SergeWoodzing (talk) 16:29, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed it now, such images can be found in the template portion of the source code at the top. TylerBurden (talk) 23:14, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove arms 

message: I am rolling back 3 edits with interesting new info, unfortunately without any sources at all. SergeWoodzing (talk) 12:06, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rollback today