User talk:Eiberg-Jensen

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I've had to revert your edits to Isle of Sheppey since they were at variance to the known facts. In 855 The Anglo-Saxon chronicle recorded the name as "Sceapige", meaning isle of sheep. I think therefore your suggestion of "skibs-oe" is unlikely to be correct, and would need a citation to a reliable source. I'm sorry your first visit was fruitless, please persevere and add information where you can supply reliable sources. Regards, Martin of Sheffield (talk) 10:54, 28 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Hi, Martin of Sheffield.


 * 'The earliest extant manuscript, the Winchester Chronicle, was written by a single scribe up to the year 891',... And apparantly he was unable to speak Danish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_Chronicle#History_of_the_manuscripts


 * The Danes landed on: 'Skibs-ø' in 855.


 * Vikings: In 855, Sheppey as part of the kingdom of Wessex, became the winter camp of an occupying Viking force. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Sheppey#cite_note-6  [6] Thorpe, Benjamin (1861). The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: According to the Several Original Authorities. Rolls Series. 2. London: Longman. p. 57. Retrieved 20 September 2015.


 * You're quite correct about the winter camp in 855: "Her hæþne men ærest on Sceapige ofer winter sætun". This though was written by an English hand, not a Viking one, and therefore uses the place names familiar with English readers.  In an age before printing it was common for scribes to copy manuscripts, it was the only form of distribution.  The Winchester scribe may have been creating the manuscript, he may have been collating fragments, or he may have been copying an earlier (now lost) version.  In any case all we can say is that in 891 an English hand recorded the name "Scaepige" as the name by which a part of Wessex was known to English readers.  The area had been settled for centuries prior to the Danish incursion; in around AD 670 King Ecgberht of Kent gave land at Minster to establish a Benedictine nunnery which was burnt down in 855.


 * When replying to threads on talk pages it is common to indent each reply using a colon in from of each paragraph. It makes it easier to distinguish who is talking to whom.  Thanks, Martin of Sheffield (talk) 09:25, 1 March 2018 (UTC)