Talk:Víðarr

Landviði
This 'Landviði' name which comes out of the blue in the article might make someone curious. It's actually based on the Grímnismál stanza. Take a look at the manuscript text:

You can see the stanza, it starts 12 lines from the bottom up: "Hrisi vex & ok há grasi viþars land.viði" The syntax is a bit tricky here and some early commentators took Landviði to be the name of Víðarr's dwelling place. I think that's no longer a fashionable theory. Haukur (talk) 22:29, 1 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Víðarr 174.166.222.255 (talk) 20:34, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

Name
I cannot help but find it overly, and unnecessarily, pedantic to spell the name Víðarr. I am well aware this is the original spelling, but if one is to adhere to that rule, one might as well change Tuscany to Tusculanum, York to Jorvik (or even: Euboracium), and Egypt to Hat-ka-Ptah.

I propose changing Víðarr to Vidar (which is the form in almost every other language), or even Vidarr. --Sparviere (talk) 15:20, 23 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Here is the guideline reflecting the consensus we have reached on English Wikipedia about cases like these: Naming_conventions_(Norse_mythology). This is a separate convention created only as a guideline for Old Norse names, so it is irrelevant what the editors working on Tuscany and those other examples do. –Holt (T•C) 14:01, 25 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I acquiesce. However, I still find it pedantic.

--Sparviere (talk) 21:47, 10 April 2009 (UTC)


 * But this violates the rules of wikipedia.188.172.108.7 (talk) 12:50, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

English Wiki
English wiki.

í-not English.

ð-Not English.

So where are we then?112.198.79.107 (talk) 13:48, 5 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Read this: Naming conventions (Norse mythology). &#58;bloodofox: (talk) 20:28, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Those are not rules. They are a request. A request that violates the rules of wikipedia.188.172.108.164 (talk) 11:52, 8 September 2021 (UTC)
 * But this violates the rules of wikipedia.188.172.108.7 (talk) 12:49, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

Víðarr stronger than Þórr?
Þórr is of course stated to be the strongest god while Víðarr is second. But I honestly feel like Víðarr might be the strongest naturally, while Þórr is only the strongest when using his strength enhancing belt, Megingjörð. 2603:6011:F83F:5015:8456:2A2F:CF34:19DF (talk) 08:56, 19 July 2022 (UTC)