Talk:Laxdæla saga

Laxdœla/Laxdæla/Laxdöla/Laxdäla/Laxdela/Laxdala/Laxdola/Laxdoela/Laxdaela
I believe that this article might have the wrong name. In Nordisk familjebok the saga is called Laxdœlasagan, with œ and not æ. It would be "correct" to replace æ (ä in modern swedish) with ae, but not œ (ö in modern swedish) to ae. The "correct" (or better) way to do that would be to replace it with oe. I don't know whether it has got it's own english name, but this is according to the article in Nordisk familjebok. You can reach me here on the swedish Wikipedia, if you need.


 * You're right, this is originally 'œ' - but in the late Middle Ages in Iceland œ and æ merged, hence you'll see more than one spelling. Haukur 20:24, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
 * It seems to me rather odd that the original character is œ. The normal way to spell it in Icelandic nowadays would be Laxdæla, the dæla part coming from the word dalur (valley) and a being, I would think, more related to æ than to œ. Was the word dalur originally dolur or something like that? I'm not doubting that you're right, at least I haven't looked into it myself to any extent, but I just find it very strange to believe. Could you either explain it, or tell me where you have this information from? --Sterio 16:35, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm actually not sure how the etymology works but you can confirm the form with dictionaries, here's one: Haukur 16:38, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
 * And here's another one, which makes some attempt to explain the sound change: Haukur 16:40, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

The modern scholarly spelling in English is either Laxdaela or, preferably, using the ligature, Laxdæla. Laxdœla is archaic and obscure, and the title of this article should be changed forthwith. 93.206.171.249 (talk) 21:36, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 20:32, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

saga Laxdœla saga → Laxdæla saga – Move over redirect per discussion above, and to match names of other "valley-named" saga articles—Fljótsdæla saga, Svarfdæla saga, and Vatnsdæla. Deor (talk) 20:56, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
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Pathetic Sentiment
What was meant here? Certainly stating something like this is neither neutral nor common.187.21.3.188 (talk) 03:22, 13 November 2014 (UTC)


 * It presumably means "pathos", so I've changed it accordingly. 86.13.229.14 (talk) 18:35, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

Who or what is Hrappurstadir?
"Höskuldr also fights the reanimated Hrappurstadir." It would be good to say who or what Hrappurstadir is - Googling "Hrappurstadir" leads only to this article and a copy of it elsewhere, so I haven't been able to work it out for myself. ChrisBaker (talk) 15:50, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I've changed it to "Hrappr" (in English, the name is often given as "Hrapp", but since the nominative -r ending is used elsewhere in the article, as in "Höskuldr" rather than "Höskuld", I figured I'd include it here as well). "Hrappstadir" or "Hrappstaðir" was actually the name of the place where Hrapp lived rather than that of the person. Deor (talk) 16:27, 3 November 2015 (UTC)