Talk:Sverre of Norway

message: Sverris saga is the name of the book in
the language in which it was composed.
It's also probably the most common way
to refer to it in English. A quick Google
check gives me the following results:
*151 English pages for "Sverris saga"
*24 English pages for "Sverres saga" 
*14 English pages for "Sverrir's saga"
*12 English pages for "Sverre's saga"
According to the much disputed Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English):
"If you are talking about a person, country,
town, movie or book, use the most 
commonly used English version of the name..."
Did anyone else see that an AIDS article was showing up when you clicked on the continue link from the main page?
Personally I tend to prefer the most pedantically
correct version, even if some other versions are
frequently used in English. But in this happy case
it seems to me that the form I'd like to use anyhow
is the most frequently used in English. Granted, a
Google test isn't perfect, especially when the results
are so few, but a ratio of more than 10-to-1 seems
to be a good clue.
Haukurth 12:24, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I have got an impression that Deb willingly uses other languages, even such she does not have command over. Thus, this is, for Deb, a good opportunity to get acquainted with other languages. 217.140.193.123 07:12, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

text: I think you just did so perfectly! I wasn't sure if the fact in question was found in The Saga itself OR if its The Saga that calls the fact into question. Roodog2k 14:34, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

text: To be a priest. Fornadan (t) 22:26, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment by Haukurth

message: Don't mind me... Let me know if I mangle a meaning or something.  Very interesting.  I don't know a whole lot about the subject.
Roodog2k 19:16, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you just did so perfectly! I wasn't sure if the fact in question was found in The Saga itself OR if its The Saga that calls the fact into question. Roodog2k 14:34, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Helping with Copyediting 

message: You said it so well above "The saga states that when Sverre was born, Gunnhild and Unås were married, but Sverre can't be the son of both Unås and Sigurd." that I pasted it into the document.  I do not think there is a POV issue here, since its supported with other facts.
BTW, those last edits were mine.  I didn;t realize I had been logged-out.
Roodog2k 15:43, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: To be a priest. Fornadan (t) 22:26, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sverre's Paternity 

message: I like the image!  Very sweet. Roodog2k 02:13, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nice Image 

message: I've moved this page from Sverre I of Norway to Sverre of Norway since there has been only one Norwegian king with that name and it's unlikely that there will ever be a Sverre II. Now to get rid of the double redirects. Fornadan (t) 11:16, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page move 

message: I'd very much like to see this article featured some day, but the lack of (English) references is probably the biggest problem atm. I've added the few I've used. Fornadan (t) 22:02, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: Hate to be a killjoy but: Geoffrey Malcolm Gathorne-Hardy (1956). A royal impostor: King Sverre of Norway, London: Oxford University Press. (Barend 15:36, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  A message from the George Psalmanazar International Appreciation Society 

message: With regard to the sentence: "The civil wars period of Norwegian history lasted from 1130 to 1217," which also appears in many articles about other Norwegian kings of the period: I disagree with the designation of the year 1217 as the end of the civil wars period. The civil wars dragged on throughout the 1220s, even though the birkebeiner and bagler were finally reconciled in 1217. I have also seen 1230 as an end date for the civil wars period, but more commonly 1240, when the final rebellion against Håkon Håkonsson was put down. In my recent change to the article on Håkon Håkonsson I have change the end year from 1217 to 1240. Does anyone have strong feelings for keeping the year 1217 in this article?
Barend 12:48, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  End of civil wars period 

message: I see you disagree on my changing the name Bergenshus to Sverresborg. Bergenshus is definitely wrong, as the correct spelling is Bergenhus. Apart from the fact that the name Bergenhus wasn't introduced until sometime around 1600, and is here an anachronism, the only form of fortification that existed in the 1190s was what is now called Sverresborg, which is separate from present Bergenhus fortress. A reference in English is here: http://www.bergen.kommune.no/info/world_heritage_city.html. If you can read Norwegian, there are several other references on the web, just google Sverresborg +Bergenhus.
(Barend 13:49, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Didn't know that there is also a Sverresborg in Bergen. The proper way to do this is probably to have Sverresborg, Bergen and Sverresborg, Trondheim and then have disambiguation page at Sverresborg Fornadan (t) 14:15, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bergenhus - Sverresborg 

message: Lovely! We may finally have Sverre II of Norway in 50 years or so :) - Dhkbk 21:40, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Only if Ingrid Alexandra dies young without children Fornadan (t) 23:29, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Oops, sorry. Had my line-to-the-throne mixed up. - Dhkbk 07:45, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Prince is Born 

message: For a featured article, this seems to be lacking in specific citations. Ardric47 01:04, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: I would add a reference to my last edit, refuting the canon law-argument against Sverre, but I am not quite sure how. So I put the reference here: Magnús Stefánsson: "Kong Sverres alder og prestevigsel", in Historisk tidsskrift, bd. 85, p. 279-288 (Oslo, 2006).
Magnús lists the age at which successive bishops on Iceland became priests:Þorlákr Þórhallsson, 27/28 years old in 1150/51; Guðmundr Arason, 23 y (1185); Ísleifr Gizurarson, 20 y (1026); Gizurr Ísleifsson, <24 y (<1066), Árni Þorláksson, 27 y (1264). In one case, in 926, a five-year-old boy was consecrated bishop of Rheims. Admittedly, this is a couple of centuries before Sverre. Magnús also goes on to list prominent historians who agree with his view that the canon law-argument against Sverre is defunct, and chides Claus Krag for having ignored it in his recent book on Sverre.--Barend 15:58, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  On veracity of Sverre's claim to royal blood. 

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