Talk:Sweyn Haakonsson

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Sources

Some sources which mention Sveinn. Haukur 23:22, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

About Staffan Hellberg's claim

The article on Sveinn is quite interesting. The guy claims that the Svein referred to in the relevant skaldic poems is in fact Sweyn I of Denmark. He has to reinterpret them a bit to reach this conclusion, for example he believes that Olav Haraldsson did not in fact win the battle of Nesjar, but was defeated by Sweyn I of Denmark in that battle. He believes that the relevant poems were misinterpreted by the people writing Historia Norvegiae and the other books in the late 12th centuries. At the same time, he totally discounts the existence of oral traditions besides the skaldic poems. It all seems a bit far-fetched to me, but the guy is a professor of the university of Stockholm (of nordic languages), so I thought it should be mentioned. --Barend 15:27, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image

Since this isn't a very good image of Svein jarl and the article already contains one image I left it here for others to decide to put it in the article