Talk:Vineta

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The only reason why i searched for vineta is "I have a girl friend named 'Vineta' who is pretty good looking & sweet in her speech"

I just want to know what does her name exactly means.

I was shocked!! to that their existed a city in her name, which was no more now.....

however, i wish to know more about her name & about that city too... from now on...

kindly update as much as information you could...

this is Mohan........(Perambure/India)

Was Danish destruction real?
The entry suggests that Vineta was probably mythical; but then suggests the Danish, as part of an actual occurrance, destroyed it. Should the Danish acts be revised to 'may have', or should they be also listed as possibly mythical? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by G34j (talk • contribs) 01:31, 8 March 2007 (UTC).

The Destruction of Vineta seems to me as it was real. I have found some informations:

A quite unknown danish historian wrote 1601 in his 2. book, page 554 and 555 about Vineta: Arrild Huitfeld shows that ''in 1158 some thousand people on Øland, Gulland and Gotland got killed by Waldemar 1. Vineta was on Gotland. The city that grew up, after Vineta was destroyed, got the name Visby.'' Huitfeld says that some called Waldemar 4. Waldemar the Evil, at the same time he excuses the bad name, because and so on ..

The only boss to Waldemar 1. was Romulus or Rex Romanorum Frederick Barbarossa, he supplied soldiers to Waldemar. Barbarossa was the first that was called Antichrist, to me it seems that Barbarossa is the only monarch with this nickname, he caused the papal scism and he prisoned the danish archbishop Eskil.

Second you say Vineta destroyed by a danish king, that needs an explanation: Quite before Waldemar 1. Denmark had three real danish kings, they got killed by Waldemar. Where Saxo writes about that battle between the three danish kings on Grathe hede, one can get the impression that this battlefield was surrounded and full of german/roman soldiers. Saxo could not write that directly, because then he knew his documentations would be destroyed by Waldemar, because he was one of the first to check the work of Saxo.

Denmark during Waldemar 1-4 became a poor part of the Holy German-Roman Empire. Waldemar infact killed most of the danes,too. He placed german soldiers on all leading positions. He was from Holstein in Germany, most he used german and foreign soldiers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kurt Aggesen (talk • contribs) 10:36, 20 May 2009 (UTC)


 * The article is basically mixing up legendary stuff about Vineta with historical stuff about Wolin. They may have been the same, but then again, they may have not. Volunteer Marek 03:30, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Marek is right about the article being mixed up. The Times Complete History of the World makes it clear that Germans knew nothing of Eastern Europe (it being the other side of impenetrable marshes) until maybe a century or two after Adam of Bremen. He clearly infers everything from Classical sources and talks of Scythia and Amazons, for example. And he, in a nutshell, says "Iumne is the largest city known to Greeks and Barbarians." Clearly he had found an old history of Byzantium, which, being in Thrace, was pretty much the Northern extent of the known world, and it's simple to go from there to assuming that Thrace extended to the Baltic, as far as anyone knew. Vince Calegon 11:06, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

I feel confused. Professor Richard Hennig (1874-1951) is not mentioned. According to him, Vineta was located on Ruden. Hennig's result must have been published either in Von rätselhaften Ländern or in Wo lag das Paradies? --213.113.114.207 (talk) 18:08, 15 October 2018 (UTC)