Talk:Battle of Brávellir

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Swedish Victory vs Danish Defeat[edit]

I changed the latter to the former. Seems more uniform.

The Frederick 11:12, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

How can you call it that, in a battle between two Danish figures? --Arigato1 23:29, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, as much as I've heard, Sweden wasn't involved. Said: Rursus 13:23, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Uh... What?![edit]

This is all crazy. I mean, when you look at the more factual (?) written accounts of Homer and the writings of the Romans and Egyptions you do get a grain of truth. "Odin came down and took him to Valhalla." Isn't that a bit POVy? I dunno. Northern Barbarians, they need to learn to write stuff down.

The preceding line, describing Harald as being 157 years old seems a little unlikely also, but again is stated as fact. I wouldn't be so quick to state that Homer's, the Romans' and the Egyptions' writings of this and most other events aren't saddled with POV either though. Canderra 15:17, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The notes[edit]

In the notes, I don't think we need Swedish text and English translation side by side, I think translation is enough. Opinionatetis Vostri! Said: Rursus 13:26, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Birger Nerman[edit]

Birger Nerman was part of the nationalist reaction to modern historical research, that was brought to Sweden by the Weibull brothers. Nerman was never a mainstream historian i Sweden during his lifetime. To quote him now as a reference for facts of history is rather fringy. To try to suppress the fact that Nerman was nationalistic reeks of censorship. /Pieter Kuiper (talk) 18:03, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What has this to do with the facts about the battle? Don't you have any factual arguments proving that Nerman made any mistakes in his evaluation of the historical positions to the battle? What will you bring up next? That Nerman beat his wife and that therefore, his historical arguments cannot be taken serious? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:120B:2C07:EEC0:29B8:55A4:CDA0:39C3 (talk) 16:12, 14 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Response to Berig's edit summary[edit]

I restored just restored what Mrund had written in this edit. Berig is still clinging to old wives' tales about former Swedish battles. /Pieter Kuiper (talk) 09:12, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia policy is explicitly against the expression of editors' opinions in the articles per WP:OR. If you reinsert an unreferenced personal opinion, you have to stand for it as your own.--Berig (talk) 14:15, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]