Talk:Sources of Hamlet

message: Why is it that Hamlet's Mill is not mentioned in this article at all? This, despite misuse by pseudo-historians, is still a worthwhile exploration of the root of the Hamlet myth. the infamous rmx (talk) 18:45, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hamlet's Mill 

message: I came across this article and tried to do some minor copyediting and fixing in the parts that I skimmed.  I'm not here to review it, but would like to point out a few things that should be addressed right away, as they have the potential to negatively affect your GA review:
#Lots of weasel words ("it is believed that," "it is theorized that," "scholars have," etc.).  This sort of language should be avoided...it may help to go to every sentence where you have wording like that, and instead add a specific source to that sentence.  For example, wording like "Shakespeare historians such as Saxo1" is better than "Some scholars"—it specifies what kind of scholars you're talking about, and gives an exemplar to represent the ambiguous "scholars" who hold that view.
#:They aren't weasel words if they are cited, which they are. I don't see any need to list the dozens of scholars who agree. Seems wasteful. Wrad (talk) 20:20, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've requested a copyedit, which should help with a lot of this. Thanks for the advice. Wrad (talk) 20:23, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pre-GAN cleanup 

message: Should this be Influence of Saxo Grammaticus?  Otherwise, I'm not sure what the headline means. Fotoguzzi (talk) 02:41, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks correct to me. The section is about things that influenced Saxo Grammaticus, not on things that it influenced. rʨanaɢ talk/contribs 05:29, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Influences on Saxo Grammaticus 

message: The so called 'Germen Hamlet', seems to be very similar, almost identical to Shakespeare's Hamlet. Shouldn't this be mentioned here? A whole 'nother article would be even better for this story. --Xali (talk) 00:02, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fratricide Revenged (Der Bestrafte Brudermord) 

message: The title appears twice in the article, with slightly different renderings. Varlaam (talk) 03:17, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I read the referenced section of the book, and it has very little resemblance to the material given in the section. Both deleted. Tom Reedy (talk) 13:12, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Henry Brown's book 

message: The story of the Lady of Weissenburg became one of the most well-known dramas of the early medieval Europe. Its ‘theatrical’ quality, its dramatic power — a collision of love, betrayal and retribution — for centuries aroused the imagination of poets, singers, writers and painters. It entered the folklore of German-speaking people from Holland to northern Italy. In Slovakia, the version of the Ballade of the Lady of Weissenburg was known — and sung — up until after the second world war.
Count Friedrich, Imperial Palatine of Saxony, married Adelheid, daughter of the powerful Count of Stade. Things were rarely that simple in marriage even back then, and soon after the wedding, Adelheid fell in love with her neighbour – young Ludwig, Count of Thuringia and Friedrich III’s cousin. Together, they conspired to murder Friedrich, staging a hunting accident: One gloomy winter day a party of hunters enter the forest near Friedrich’s residence. Reacting to Adelheid’s warning, he dashed off to intercept and to arrest the trespassers, who ambushed him and killed him. He was buried at the Goseck monastery nearby.
However, while Friedrich was gone, his genetic legacy was not. Adelheid, who had by now wed Ludwig with almost indecent haste and without properly observing the period of mourning, bore the dead Count a son, Friedrich IV.
The young Friedrich was less than happy with his step-father, who was briefly detained by Emperor Heinrich IV of the time, but escaped – and earned the epithet ‘The Jumper’ – by jumping into the Saale River. As Ludwig won back favour with the Emperor over time, so his power as Count of Thuringia grew. He was no slouch as a politician, bestowing generous deeds of appropriated land and privileges on his subjects. He then built the Neuenburg Castle, barely 3km away from the Weissenburg Castle: Friedrich’s court. This was a grave affront to Friedrich, opening up the rift between them further. Friedrich would go on to openly accuse Ludwig of his father’s murder and challenge him to a duel.
In something of an anti-climax, the duel never happened. Friedrich left the state to marry Agnes, daughter of Count Henrik van Limburg, with whom he had two children. Most likely to his glee, he outlived his stepfather, who died in either 1123 or 1126. His mother had, meanwhile, died as a nun in 1111, in the monastery at Zscheiplitz which Adelheid had established as a place of repentance and remembrance for Friedrich III and which still stands today.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 0102031zz (talk • contribs) 22:02, 6 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legend of Friedrich, Adelheid and Ludwig