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:I'm sorry to disagree, but I think that my answer stands -- there may be a trend in scholarship towards the more naturally Polish -slaw ending, but I think most English speakers still think -slaus. Michael's suggestion is the best way to deal with it, I think. :I would also like to clarify something here: when I ask for sources, I am not looking for an Internet search. There is no regulation on the internet as far as what people can or can't say; there is no peer review to ensure accuracy. You can't trust much on the web, unless you know the source. Also, different search engines find different things -- some require sites to register with them, for example, before they will show the site in a search. Wikipedia is in many ways an exception from the inaccuracy rule -- but only because there are casess where many people have an interest and knowledge on a specific subject and so try to keep it clean. To me, sources are scholarly texts and articles and, more importantly, primary sources. :As for the encyclopedia entries on the web that you cite as evidence, I'm not sure I understand why you've cited them. All they really are are descriptions of bishoprics...the fact that one is in Schleswig Holstein NOW, for example, doesn't mean S-H existed in the 9th century... Could you please explain on the Jutland Talk page how this supports your argument? Thanks! JHK |
Oops -- missed something. My personal vote would be to cut Boleslaw and paste him into a Boleslaus article. However, I didn't make any links to that name, because as Helga says, we've got a page already, and I am willing to let it stay -- although Boleslaw I Chrobry isn't really accepted English, as far as I know. Frankly, it's hard to tell, since Americans at least seem to be trying more for native spellings. I think the -laus ending has an edge, though.
As for Cunigunde, yeah. Mostly because I've only seen it spelled that way in English (except for those real English francophiles who use Lothair and Mayence and Treves, which I find personally offensive). I like the nice, middle of the road Cunigunde, all syllables pronounced, 'cause it's a good old clerical Latin spelling. No German K's, no Franch O. Frankly, your average scribe of the time could well have used all three in one document...<hitting self in head over the problems of medieval names> JHK
823 Danish chief Harald Klack went to imperial Ingelheim and he and entire retinue were baptized by Louis the Pious.
Gorm the Old fought, was subdued by Otto I the Great, son Harald Bluetooth pledged allegiance to Otto I. He had to find rescue in Jomsburg from his son. Jomsburg was destroyed by Danes ca 1040. (Later Wollin and Pomerania).
Danewerk, Dannewerk was started around 600 (till 1200) to ward off Slavs .Of course the heathen Danes (Vikings) also used it. It was still used in 1800.