Talk:Þrúðr

Other mentions

The name Þrúðr is used in the name Þrvðheimi (Trud-home: Grímnismál, 4), and Þrvdgelmir (Trud-helmet) son of Avrgelmir (Cow-helmet) (Vaftrudnismál, 29)

Language?

Quick question...if this is the English language wiki, why does this page's title use three letters (out of five in the word) not found in the English language? Can we use "Thrud" as the title and put the Norse spelling of the name in parentheses in the body like with, say, Russian or Greek names elsewhere on Wiki?

Rayasmith 04:11, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

1) The Russian and the Greek don't use the Latin alphabet.

2) See Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Norse mythology).

Sigo 20:55, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Ah. Did not know about that. Thanks. Rayasmith 03:10, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Honestly, I question the wisdom of this policy. As the OP said, this is the English language Wikipedia. If I searched for "Thrud," (the Norse/Germanic demi-goddess, not the comic character) and the first result that pops up is "Þrúðr," I'm going to assume that that wasn't what I was looking for, because I can't even pronounce Þrúðr. Thorn and Eth aren't part of the Latin alphabet. You have to go into the foreign characters section of most Character Maps to find them. Since the same goes for the Greek and Cyrillic alphabets, shouldn't the same reasoning disqualify giving priority to Norse spellings? Wikipedia is intended for the average reader, not just scholars, isn't it? --JDspeeder1 (talk) 08:02, 20 September 2021 (UTC)