Talk:Orkneyinga saga/GA1

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Reviewer: Maunus (talk · contribs) 06:55, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

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I am happy to review this article.·maunus · snunɐɯ· 06:55, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

A very pleasant and interesting read. Well developed and with a good balance between summary of the narrative and scholarly opinion. I think this will be an easy pass. I will have to do some spotchecks of some of the sources, to make sure they are represented correctly and that there is no close paraphrasing, but I assume there is no such issues. I have fixed some of the references that named Sturluson as sturlson, I made some minor wording changes, I also changed the name of Rögnvalds son whom I am pretty sure is Hrollaug and not Hrolluag. The reference number 16 should presumably to Crawford 2003 and not 2013, since there is no "Crawford 2013" in the literature list. Could we put ref 27, Knut Helle, into the literature list so it doesn't stand out as the only long ref in the reference section?

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Many thanks for the review. As you can see I made rather a mess of doing the Crawford fix. In fact, one reference from 2013 was missing so thanks for drawing my attention to that. The Helle ref is also fixed (I think - Template:Citation is a little inflexible in cases like this.) You are of course correct about the spelling of 'Hrollaug'. Ben MacDui 16:26, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, I don't think there is anything to keep me from promoting this. Very fine work.·maunus · snunɐɯ· 08:58, 24 April 2018 (UTC)