Talk:Herleva

Legend
According to a local legend there, Arlette was born in HUY, Belgium, daughter of Fulbert the tanner and Doda a princess coming from Scotland (freddy (talk) 19:38, 28 September 2010 (UTC)) A statue of Arlette de Huy, William's mother, stands in the middle of the city. For the readers of this page: Please note that the novel "Arlette" exists in english under the title "Arlette, daughter of Huy", same author/2004 and is also available in Huy, Belgium.

Style
The manner in which the legend is told is appropriate to the context in which it is told, or that of a funny story, but I am not sure it is consistent with the [Manual of style]. For example, in "perhaps a bit more than necessary" it is clear that the skirts were raised more than necessary, and I would argue that this should be stated expressly rather than as an amusing innuendo. --Robert the Devil — Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.107.189.202 (talk) 02:01, 12 July 2012 (UTC)


 * I don't know that the legend says anything about skirts at all - the whole 'legend' is uncited and has been for some time. This looks to me like an editor trying to be amusing. Agricolae (talk) 19:22, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Why use the misleading name "Herleva"?
It's obvious she wasn't of Scandinavian descent as her father was called "Fulbert", a tradional Frankish name. The name "Arlette" was probably the real version and should be in the title instead of "Herleva". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.119.31.74 (talk) 02:08, 5 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Given that her son was William, son of Robert, son of Richard, son of Richard, son of William, all of demonstrable Scandinavian descent, it is far from clear that a person of Scandinavian descent in 11th century Normandy couldn't bear a 'traditional Frankish name' - in fact, the majority of them bore Frankish names. Anyhow, Wikipedia bases its page names on the form most commonly used by English-language scholars, not what editors deduce to be the 'real version'. Agricolae (talk) 02:21, 5 April 2020 (UTC)