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What is up with the swedish or german ö? If he is a danish king either write his name in the form of the sources mentioning him (mostly latin), or danishfy the name (Skjold) instead of using a swedishfication of the latin name.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Carewolf (talkcontribs)

I believe the material about Nordic legends in general uses a naming format which is either Ancient Norse or Icelandic. I can't tell the two from each other, but you might wish to ask User:Berig who must be our leading expert on the Ancient Norse. Valentinian T / C 21:39, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Ah **** . It looks like somebody has driven him off Wikipedia as well. When will this end? Valentinian T / C 21:59, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Actually Haukur is our leading expert on Old Norse. But I hope Berig'll soon be back. Sigo 09:24, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
Skjöldr is the standardized Old Norse spelling, as used in normalized editions of the Old Norse sources. One also sees o-ogonek used and that is perhaps "more standard" but we've used 'ö' on Wikipedia because it is more expedient. Haukur 00:23, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
See [1] for example. Haukur 00:24, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for your reply. And I'm glad to see that you're still around. Valentinian T / C 21:32, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
Same to you :) Haukur 21:39, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 :) Valentinian T / C 21:41, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

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