Talk:Magnus Magnusson

message: Could someone clarify to me please, how is his name spelt is it Magnus Magnusson or Magnús Magnússon. AxG (talk) (sign here) 22:13, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Magnús Magnússon is the proper Icelandic name he was given but he dropped the diacritics in the UK and that's how he will always be known there I believe. --Bjarki 05:18, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Then, of course, that's what should be in the Wikipedia article name.  Gene Nygaard (talk) 16:33, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

message: Surely his father's name was Sigursteinn - http://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigursteinn - or are Icelandic names cited in the accusative?
:You are right, it should be Sigursteinn which is the nominative case. --Bjarki 12:39, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Father's name 

message: He was a noted Icelandic translator, and did many of the sagas, not to mention modern literature such as the novels of Halldor Laxness There should be more mention of this.
Also a notable writer upon Scottish subject matter.--MacRusgail (talk) 15:52, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation career 

message: The diacritical marks are entirely inappropriate.  He never used them in any of his many published works, and the article even implies that they are appropriate for his children.  They need to go (and they need to go from the title too).  Sticks out like a sore thumb that his daughter Sally is exempt from the treatment, as she has a Wiki article and it's a BLP.  Magnus and his other children get it because he's dead and they don't have articles here.  It's not Wikipedia's task to impose some kind of authenticity on people.KD Tries Again (talk) 06:58, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diacritics 

message: The following from ODNB confirms the obvious:
:With this nationality and parentage he should have been called Magnús Sigursteinsson, but this was regarded as too difficult for non-Icelanders to pronounce in the family's newly adopted country of Scotland, where they moved when Magnus was nine months old. So, Magnús Magnússon he became, and remained, although he Anglicized the spelling by removing the accents. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 00:14, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Name

message: He never took British, and therefore Scottish, citizenship so he cannot be listed as Scottish. Permanent Residence doesn't make you a citizen of that country.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.165.152.170 (talk) 17:35, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  He should not be listed under ''Scottish''. 

message: Did he honestly use this foreign pronunciation of Magnus? Varlaam (talk) 18:14, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maknus with a 'k' 

message: I don't think his successor should be John Humphrys -after the BBC TV series stopped in 1997 it was on radio with Peter Snow then then o the Discovery Channel with Clive Anderson before the BBC revived it with Humphrys. Dunarc (talk) 20:34, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Host of Mastermind succession box 

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