Talk:Viken (region)

Wrong information about language development
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 * It was the middling part of Denmark-Norway during the "Viking Age", which is why Bokmal steadily became the national written language after Harald I of Norway.

Bokmål and Danish influence of language was far, far later than Harald Fairhair. I've removed this sentence. -- Egil 17:34, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Bogus information
For about 6 months, this article contained a lot of semi-bogus information provided by the banned user Kenneth Alan.--Wiglaf 22:02, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

Spurious info about current use removed
I have removed the text inserted by Egil in this edit about the use of the term Viken having been revitalized in recent time. I don't believe this is the case (I live in Oslo). Anyway, if someone feels it to be so, this should be cited with a reliable source. __meco 07:39, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Víkin
Actually, the old norse name is Víkin. Viken is the modern bokmål and Swedish form of the area. --Oddeivind (talk) 10:40, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Viken?
I feel that the name is unrepresentative of the district, as the Norwegian word vik is a feminine noun, and is in definite form vika. The term Viken was made up by the historian Peter Andreas Munch, and we should change the name of the article.  07:49, 1 February 2016 (UTC)