1,516
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Line 16:
Line 16: + + + + + + + +
no edit summary
::Abell has asserted that Sunday and Monday are named for Sunna and Mani, but neither the Concise Oxford English Dictionary on my shelf nor the Online Etymology Dictionary bear out this assertion. I'd propose that someone confirm the etymology of the two days' names with the full OED and we accept that as the final source on the matter. In any event, the Anglo-Saxons were not Vikings....they were a Germanic culture made up largely of conquered Celts, so why is the sentence on the days of the week being named after Anglo-Saxon gods at all relevant to the Viking entry? I'm going to delete the sentence, but it might be added into an article about Scandivaian/Teutonic mythology, as trivia, or an article on the Anglo-Saxons. : --[[User:JesusSaves|JesusSaves]] 20:59, 15 April 2007 (EDT)
::Abell has asserted that Sunday and Monday are named for Sunna and Mani, but neither the Concise Oxford English Dictionary on my shelf nor the Online Etymology Dictionary bear out this assertion. I'd propose that someone confirm the etymology of the two days' names with the full OED and we accept that as the final source on the matter. In any event, the Anglo-Saxons were not Vikings....they were a Germanic culture made up largely of conquered Celts, so why is the sentence on the days of the week being named after Anglo-Saxon gods at all relevant to the Viking entry? I'm going to delete the sentence, but it might be added into an article about Scandivaian/Teutonic mythology, as trivia, or an article on the Anglo-Saxons. : --[[User:JesusSaves|JesusSaves]] 20:59, 15 April 2007 (EDT)
==Source on Landings contradicts Statement==
The source used to contest the idea of vikings landing in North America explicitly mentions that they did:
:"Everybody does, however, agree the Vikings made it to North America 500 years before Christopher Columbus in 1492. And few question the fur-clad Ericson and his crew of explorers dropped anchor from their open plank boats off the beach near what is now L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada, the site that would become the only authenticated Viking settlement in North America."
The article was about vikings not having landed in what is now New England. Unless the L’Anse aux Meadows findings can be proven wrong, the contention in this article that they never landed in North America needs to be removed as misleading. -[[User:DinsdaleP|DinsdaleP]] 14:59, 4 August 2008 (EDT)