Talk:Straumfjörð

OR/Synth
nearly every paragraph starts with an original research formulation and rhetorical questions/answers are throughout; jumbled and disorganized and often with bad spelling, this is not an encylopedia article but a fantasy-essay clobbered together based on a name. It is not a geography article, not a history article; it is an essay by someone trying to prove something. WP:SOAP apply and also WP:OR and WP:SYNTH. That this article only had WikiProject Iceland on it and neither WikiProject of the countries it purports to be about indicates the insularity of the views presented.....I've put "NA" in those WikiProject templates because how do you rate an article that, according to guidelines, shouldn't even exist??Skookum1 (talk) 16:53, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

It's terrible I agree. It should start out with an assessment of current scholarly opinion, and then go into the history of the question. Instead, we have a terrible wreck apparently written by high-schoolers. --dab (𒁳) 13:03, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Suggestion for locating sites in Vinland in known coastal geography
I think that the legend of Vinland is neat as it is also closely based on facts. It is remarkable that it describes there being no snow in the Land of Hop when the Vikings stayed there one winter, as the farhtest north where this currently applies on the US Coast is in the Carolinas. It would be especially helpful if scholars who studied Vinland listed the directions for sites that the Sagas describe and then drew a map for the geography of the region as the Sagas depict. I tried doing this for Eric the Red's Saga here: https://historum.com/t/where-do-the-viking-sagas-point-to-the-vikings-visiting-in-the-us-or-southeast-canada.196378/ Below is my own hand-drawn map: Rakovsky (talk) 00:56, 26 July 2023 (UTC)