Talk:Tostig Godwinson

Image question
What's up with the book cover image? It's not portraying Tostig, so how is it useful? Everyking 04:26, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Beats me. I didn't add it, but it breaks up the monotony. Adraeus 10:58, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

I wondered why the book cover was there. I suggest we remove it, and break the large paragraph down into more digestable snippets. MortimerCat 13:29, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Removed the book cover, it looks to me like an advertisement. --Auximines 08:55, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

82.36.184.45 (talk) 16:36, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

wat is this??
"who had just concluded a long and inconclusive war with Denmark..."

concluded used badly

82.36.184.45 (talk) 16:36, 16 April 2008 (UTC) It was likely that Harold had exiled his brother to ensure peace and loyalty in the north. Secraser (talk) 00:53, 16 May 2010 (UTC)conjecture, prove it!

Can we improve this article?
In the section,  Earl of Northumbria and specifically in the third pararaph it says that Tostig was unpopular in Northumbria, and gives a number of reasons for this, away at court, heavy handed, employing expensive mercenaries, and consequently he is unable to raise local levies to go against the Scots raiders. Then at the bottom of the same paragraph it says that he was, "a major commander in these wars attacking in the north while his brother Harold marched up from the south." Okay, so where does he get the troops from to be, "a major commander" in Wales when he can't even raise local levies in his own backyard?

It's a rhetorical question, you are not supposed to answer the question directly. My point is that the article as wrtten suffers from credibility issues because of such obvious contradictions in its text, which has no inline citations in it at all. What we have here is not a bad start but you can't just put up a wall of self contradictory text, stick three book references on the bottom and consider that an encyclopedia article. Can I ask editors interested or knowledgeable about this subject to please revisit this article and make it more encyclopedic? Thank you.  Cottonshirt  τ   17:34, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

This really hasn't been written well. "After his death at Stamford Bridge, it is believed that his body was taken to France and buried at York Minster." Now how did they manage that neat trick. They took him to France then catapulted him into a grave in York Minster??? Khasab (talk) 14:07, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Cannibalism
I don't see it in the article, and am wondering what weight is given to Henry of Huntingdon's claim that Tostig cut up servants of Harold and put bits of their bodies into a feast to be served to his brother. It seems this event is the basis for an inverse allusion involving the House of Atreus, in the anonymous Vita Aedwardi: “The Politics of Allusion in Eleventh-Century England: Classical Poets and the Vita Ædwardi.” England in Europe: English Royal Women and Literary Patronage, C.1000–C.1150, by ELIZABETH M. TYLER, University of Toronto Press, Toronto; Buffalo; London, 2017, pp. 135–201. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt1whm96v.11. Accessed 22 July 2020. Shtove (talk) 01:33, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

name of battle with Edwin and Morcar
Does this battle where Tostig was defeated by Edwin and Morcar not have a name ? or a location ? thanks for info ... 82.11.163.59 (talk) 15:20, 10 April 2023 (UTC)