User:Haukurth/Old thoughts and notes

Some sorely needed pages

 * Ari Þorgilsson
 * Gosforth cross
 * Lilja
 * The rest of the sagas.

Pages on Icelandic topics from WikiProject Missing articles, Britannica 2004 list

 * Bjarni Vigfússon Thorarensen and a redirect from Bjarni Vigfusson Thorarensen
 * Bólu-Hjálmar and a redirect from Hjalmar Jonsson and Hjálmar Jónsson
 * Guðbrandur Vigfússon and a redirect from Gudbrandur Vigfusson
 * Guðmundur Kamban and a redirect from Gudmundur Kamban
 * Gunnar Gunnarsson
 * Eysteinn Ásgrímsson and a redirect from Eysteinn Asgrimsson
 * Einar Hjörleifsson Kvaran and a redirect from Einar Hjorleifsson Kvaran
 * Eggert Ólafsson and a redirect from Eggert Olafsson
 * Ísafjörður and a redirect from Isafjordhur
 * Jakob Thorarensen
 * Jóhann Sigurjónsson - Johann Sigurjonsson
 * Jóhannes Bjarni Jónasson - Johannes Bjarni Jonasson
 * Jón Arason - Jon Arason
 * Jón Þorkelsson Vídalín - Jon Thorkelsson Vidalin
 * Kristmann Guðmundsson - Kristmann Gudmundsson
 * Ólafsfjörður and a redirect from Olafsfjordhur
 * Steingrímur Thorsteinsson and a redirect from Steingrimur Thorsteinsson
 * Suðurnesjabær - Sudurnesjabaer

Some pages that should be merged
Note: Most of what I suggest below has been done by now - by User:Salleman, User:Wiglaf and myself.

If you look at Norse mythology you'll see a lot of valkyrie names with links. The thing is that most of these valkyrie names are just that - names. The only thing about Hrist and Mist that has come down to us is that they serve Odin his horn. Others, like Hlökk and Geirskögul don't even have a little factoid like that. Most of these names should be merged into valkyrie or something like list of valkyries. There are exceptions; Hildr, Brynhildr and Sigrún definitely deserve their own pages.

The same goes for the dwarves. We know that Norðri, Suðri, Austri and Vestri stand at the four "ends" of the world and carry the sky. But that's all we know. So they don't need individual pages. Ditto for many of the other dwarves. Ditto for some of the giants.

Operation Valkyrie
As per the above ponderings I've taken to working on the valkyrie pages. I've turned some substubs into redirects and expanded others. I made a valkyrie category for the 12 valkyries I deemed significant enough to have their own pages. I've also been working on the valkyrie article itself. This has been a lot of work and there's plenty more to do. I think this is a nice test case since the valkyries are a relatively small subset of Norse mythology. If I can get the valkyrie articles to a level I'm happy with I'll have a good idea about how much work it would be to improve the rest.

I'm now expanding the project to include other female mythological characters we know little about, e.g. Sjöfn.