Talk:Olaf II of Denmark

Opening heading
OLaf is a bit unfortunate version of the name, as in Norwegian he was Olav, not Olaf, and in no other language there is Olaf, I think. Arrigo 12:11, 16 July 2005 (UTC)


 * It should obviously be merged as it concerns the same person. Just a need to decide what to merge it under. (Barend 13:01, 18 January 2006 (UTC))


 * The merge should be to this article which has the std Wikipedia form for names of Kings. Wrt Olav vz. Olaf, afaik the Old Norse form would be Olaf, current Norwegian usage is Olav, and I frankly have no idea what his contemporaries would use. -- Egil 06:57, 25 January 2006 (UTC)


 * No this is not correct. http://www.heimskringla.no/faeroysk/folkekvad/ormurinlangi.php As you can see its still Olav in Faroese. -Nastykermit


 * For reference, the name of the article that has been merged into this one was Olof Haakonson. I will remove the mergefrom template. Ardric47 23:59, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

No, this article should be renamed Oluf II of Denmark, because he was king of Denmark first and Norway second (and both only by name). No offense, but don't let any nationalistic Norwegians fool you into thinking otherwise... --dllu 12:37, 17 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Nationalistic Norwegians? Please, you Danes have an army of nationalists editing all pages that has anything to do with Norwegian-Danish relations.* -nastykermit

Request Move

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 21:30, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Oluf II of Denmark → Olaf II of Denmark — Olaf is the English translation of the Norwegian Olav and the Danish Oluf, also Olaf I of Denmark, Olaf III of Norway, Olaf II of Norway, Olaf I of Norway is under Olaf not Oluf or Olav.--Queen Elizabeth II&#39;s Little Spy (talk) 22:33, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
 * The way to keep out of national rivalries is to follow what English does, no matter what it is. Olaf, please. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 23:44, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Support for reasons given above. SergeWoodzing (talk) 06:24, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Support for reasons as above. -- Doug (talk) 23:21, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
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Succession dispute in 1375
It should go into more depth about succession dispute in 1375 between Olaf and his mother Margaret and Albert IV, Duke of Mecklenburg, the son of Ingeborg of Denmark.--Queen Elizabeth II&#39;s Little Spy (talk) 05:23, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

Circumstances of end of reign.
Was he overthrown? If not, what was the date of his death? --Yomal Sidoroff-Biarmskii (talk) 14:01, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

Proposed merge of False Olaf into Olaf II of Denmark
False Olaf was recently split from Olaf II of Denmark - I am not convinced this needs a stand-alone article, at least not right now. The content at False Olaf was and can be readily be accommodated in Olaf II of Denmark. There seems no reason to split the content at its current length. Polyamorph (talk) 06:21, 22 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Oppose Length is not the only factor in a decision to split someone into a separate article. This article, although short, is enough to justify an article in its own right.  We already have articles on impostor pretenders which theoretically might be merged with the article on the person they impersonated, but that doesn't mean they should be.  It was confusing matters to have "Olaf II of Demark" in italics in e.g. the category "Impostor pretenders". PatGallacher (talk) 13:08, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Just look at the category Category:Impostor pretenders. We have a whole pile of articles, several of them relatively short and which could be merged into the article on the person who they impersonated, but that doesn't mean that they should be.  See e.g. False Margaret. PatGallacher (talk) 13:23, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose The article on the king is so short that all that info about the impostor gets too dominant if it's in there. --SergeWoodzing (talk) 13:14, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose False Olof is relevant enough to stand on its own, but may not be relevant to mention in the king's article, except maybe in a small note. There is a whole category of royal imposter pretenders.--Aciram (talk) 19:09, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment Categories in themselves, and the articles that may or may not be in them, are not a reliable indicator of standalone notability. Polyamorph (talk) 07:00, 24 May 2021 (UTC)