Talk:Atgeir

Netvike
Link added to my webpage which includes more detail on atgeir-type weapons. More than need be included on the wikipage. Netvike (talk) 22:14, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

I am removing this external link. Chunjee (talk) 16:06, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

"Adding external links to an article or user page for the purpose of promoting a website or a product is not allowed, and is considered to be spam."

Contradiction
The first paragraph contradicts itself several times. In the first sentence it states unequivocally that the term predates the "Viking Age" and does not appear at all during the Viking Age. Then in the third sentence it states just as unequivocally that it refers to an item that existed only after the Viking Age. If this is meant to suggest a documented historical example of precognition, I'd like to see a source citation.

Then the second paragraph contradicts all of the above by stating that the term refers to a polearm of the Viking Age! What??

The perpetrator of this confusion appears to be Netvike, who slapped a new opening para on the article without checking to see if it fits the rest of the article. I hesitate to simply remove the offending first paragraph because there seems to be the germ of scholarship here. But his thesis is unclear and rambling. It requires significant improvements in clarity, and should be edited into the article, not just dumped at the top of it. 12.233.147.42 (talk) 03:23, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

vahls.com no longer valid resource
the website is now a gold investment website. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.121.137.135 (talk) 18:33, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

Early form of firearm?
New paper: Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir and Jackson Crawford. 2023. "Dating and provenance of AM 314159". Arkiv för nordisk filologi vol. 69: 420-874. Renerpho (talk) 21:05, 1 April 2023 (UTC)


 * April 1st hoax. A good one (see today's very entertaining Forgotten Weapons episode, which ends with the shooting of a sheep), but a hoax nevertheless. The paper cited above does not exist. AndyTheGrump (talk) 21:11, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
 * You have been bamboozled. I was about to post the same thing when I looked at the comments and noticed the date. KetchupSalt (talk) 09:49, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Just came back here, to see what became of this. Oh dear! What a nice hoax! Renerpho (talk) 16:47, 20 May 2023 (UTC) As a veteran of The Great April Fools' Day Edit War of 2020, I must say that this wouldn't have happened if the rules around April 1st hoaxes hadn't changed. They should have let us have fun that day, look where the changes got us! Renerpho (talk) 16:56, 20 May 2023 (UTC)