User talk:Sigo

Agaberte
You're right, I suppose we should have Agaberte deleted.

As for Snorra-Edda being or not being a featured article on fr it is certainly a much better article than we have here and I thought that was worth pointing out :) But if the star is only for FAs then so be it. Haukur 10:24, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Your work on List of names of Odin
Nice job on List of names of Odin! Having the sources is absolutely brilliant. --Swift 22:29, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Viking
Sorry to see all that "viking" non-sense over at fr :( The viking article here has been a battlefield too and generally tends to be quite bad. Haukur 15:38, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Das Rheingold
We're already using some of Rackham's illustrations to Wagner's operas. Now I've uploaded the lot of them and made a gallery out of the Rhinegold part. Haukur 20:59, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Your userpage
Why did you just clear your page? :) It's useful to see which articles you've contributed - I like to see what you're up to. Haukur 23:30, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
 * You’re very observant :) I moved the list here. If you like to see what I’m up to, don’t hesitate to correct the mistakes I certainly make. Sigo 23:43, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Mythology articles
I just wanted to thank you for the edits you've been making on Norse mythology. As interested as I am in the subject, I'll never claim to be an expert so your work is greatly appreciated. Cerdic 03:05, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Sagas
Salut! Merci pour ton message! Ta remarque concernant le titre de l'article (Saga Skjöldunga) est tout à fait pertinente... Je pense qu'il faudrait le renommer Saga des Skjöldungar, par analogie aux autres articles consacrés à des sagas, qui ont été francisés (si j'en crois la liste des articles figurant dans la catégorie saga). Comme je ne me suis inscrit que récemment à Wikipedia, je n'ai pas encore le droit d'effectuer des "renommages". Peux-tu le faire à ma place? Merci! --Ragnald 18:47, 13 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Merci! --Ragnald 06:51, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Category:Viking Age poets
Compare with Category:Medieval poets. Looks like we've created quite a lot of these articles :) Haukur 21:52, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

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Request
Dear Sigo, discussions such as the one you have opened on naming are always tricky. Personally, I have wide tolerance in such questions, because people can maintain that "saga" has an extended meaning in English, such as "family saga".--Berig 16:22, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * You're probably right about "family sagas", even if the concept is a bit vague: Buddenbrooks and Dune don't have much in common. And since there's no category for them, I think it could just be mentionned in Saga (disambiguation). The trouble is the Category:Sagas has become a mess, with Terminator right before Þiðrekssaga... I'd better have not created it.
 * Thanks again for Mistilteinn. I'm not sure I'd have find by myself what it was.
 * Sigo 17:05, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * The easiest way of getting rid of an annoying category is to simply recategorize all its articles and forget about it ;-).--Berig 21:22, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * That's what I did. But the articles've been moved back :( Sigo 21:37, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't know if it is of any consolation, but in my Old Norse derived maternal language saga has evolved into meaning "fairy tale", while sägen took on the old meaning "something that is said". The meaning "Old Norse saga" was added to the word saga when the sagas became popular in the 17th century. This means that the word for "legendary kings" sagokungar has the double meaning "Old Norse saga kings" and "fairy tale kings" in my language. It bugs me a lot, because I suspect that it unfairly contributes to the uniquely high saga scepticism in my country where the sagas represent the bulk of early history. However, there is nothing I can or will be able to do about it. Some flukes of semantics we have to live with, such as the varied meanings of saga.--Berig 21:58, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Come what may... I spent some time reorganiznig the Category:Old Norse literature, I found it fine the way it was, I no longer do, never mind.
 * Thanks for the information about the evolution of the meaning of the word in Swedish. I was just wondering about that. When I have some time, I'll try to find when it got a broader meaning in French. It's probably quite recent.
 * Sigo 23:01, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Agilaz
Dear Sigo, I see that you added a tag to User:Dbachmann's reconstruction of the original name. I assure you that the reconstruction is quite simple. The Old Norse name Egill has a different case form Agli. This means that we can be certain that Egill represents an i-umlauted original Agil-. Since the nominative case marker in Proto-Norse was -az (became l after l in Old Norse) we get the original form *Agilaz.--Berig 20:12, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
 * It may be so but why do we use a reconstructed Proto-Germanic form in this case? We could do the same for every character that was known in several Germanic cultures, but we usually don't. I don't think Weyland is a reconstructed form for instance. Actually, I don't even know what it is: I know Völundr from Völundarkviða, Velent from Þiðrekssaga, Wēlund from Deor and a few others, but no Weyland. Sigo 20:53, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I guess the main reason is because he used Egil as a disambiguation page.--Berig 21:04, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
 * That's a good reason. Before I saw there already was an article, I was thinking of creating one with the title Ölrúnar-Egill, which is the nickname given to him in the Þiðrekssaga. By the way, I've just seen you've been working on Níðuðr while I was writting a summary of the Velents þáttr smiðs. Sigo 21:08, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Mythologie nordique (fr)
Salut, j'ai bien reçu ton message, je sais très bien que la mythologie nordique est synonyme de mythologie scandinave (là n'est pas le problème), le problème est que l'article Mythologie nordique sur la Wikipedia francophone ne le dis pas en introduction. Compare avec la version anglophone Norse mythology dont l'introduction est mieux développée et plus précise. En fait le problème de l'article Mythologie nordique dans son introduction est qu'il fait une confusion entre "nordique" au sens ethnique et "nordique" au sens géographique, en laissant croire que la mythologie nordique était la religion de tout le nord de l'Europe, ce qui est faux. Il faut revoir l'introduction, par exemple en faisant la traduction de l'article anglophone Norse mythology, en précisant bien que cela fait référence à la mythologie des scandinaves, et en précisant qu'il existe d'autres mythologies au nord de l'Europe comme le saami (lapon), finnois, este, russe... Guérin Nicolas 06:50, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Categories
I don't suppose we need both Category:Viking Age poets and Category:Skalds. If you have a tidy definition for the latter then we should probably delete the former. Haukur 14:00, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Norse history and culture
Cher Sigo! Je voudrais te poser la question de savoir si tu veux joindre le projet WikiProject Norse history and culture. À mon avis, ce n'est pas la peine d'avoir un tel projet si des utilisateurs compétents comme toi n'en font pas parti. Je voudrais aussi te remercier pour le grand nombre de bons articles que tu as écrit.--Berig 17:10, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot. I didn’t know you were of level. I joined the project. Even if I’ve been back on the French Wiki for a few weeks – and there’s much to do there – I’ll try to help here if I can. That’s nice to have people like you or Haukur to work with. Sigo 21:18, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your complement. I have lived in Paris and Poitiers :).--Berig 12:32, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Iceland
Are you interested in joining WP:ICELAND? You seem to have started a few new Iceland-related articles, we could use your help! Max Naylor 10:11, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

is:Þykkvabæjarklaustur
Hi Haukur,

This is a very short article, but if you translate it, I'll try to add a few things. Sigo 15:23, 23 June 2007 (UTC)


 * That article basically says that it's a monastery founded in 1168 and dismantled in the Reformation. Eysteinn Ásgrímsson was a monk there. The place where the monastery is believed to have stood is now marked with a pillar.


 * I've searched my personal library for something more meaty but without much success. I can maybe check the library on Monday - recently a large work on the history of the Church in Iceland was published. That's probably what we need. Haukur 16:18, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

"Since she kindly mentions us"
Really? :) What does she say? Haukur 20:50, 21 July 2007 (UTC)


 * She gives a list of websites in the bibliography and she eventually adds:
 * "and of course, the entry in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_mythology"
 * But the websites section begins with "I cannot vouch for the content's accuracy or political correctness"...
 * Sigo 22:14, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

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