Talk:Maeshowe

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In the Orkneyinga Saga its Earl Harald Maddadarson and not Rognvald who breaks into Maes Howe in - presumably - the early 1150's

The name

Should the main entry not be for Maeshowe with Maes Howe redirecting to that, since the one word version of the name is correct? Lianachan 08:30, 7 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hard call, many places I respect say Maes Howe, but the OS and Visit Scotland say Maeshowe, so I've moved it to that. wangi 14:04, 7 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Anywhere that says Maes Howe isn't worthy of such respect! Lianachan 15:12, 7 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well... http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/brogar.htm is probably useful to keep in mind for a reference. wangi 15:28, 7 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

In my opinion "Howe" in Maeshowe should link to "haug" (which explains haugr, the norse name for these artificial hills). The full, norse name for this hill is Orkahaugr. I assume this is far beyond what is acceptable writing on a "Scottish" page. St.Trond (talk) 13:12, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The rules for Scottish pages are no different from any other pages. However neither Howe nor Haug/haugr are articles so there is nothing to link too - it isn't appropriate to link to a dab page as it would not be clear to a reader which meaning was intended. Ben Mac Dui 13:51, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Chambered cairn design

The design of Maeshowe, to my eye, closely resembles that of Newgrange. Does anyone have formal expertise on this point? Jeremy Tobacman 15:50, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There are definate similarities, especially with regards to the winter solstice illumination of the back wall, but I'm afraid I don't know enough about Newgrange to go into whether the similarities are superficial. I don't even know how Newgrange is classed (Maeshowe, of course, is a "Maeshowe-type"!) Lianachan 16:34, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

On the first part of the name...

Just out of interest, is there no mention in the litterature of the other norse word for "great", which survives today in danish placenames "Møgeltønder" (Great Tønder) and "Store Magleby" (literally "Big Bigtown"). The base of the word is magul or magli or something like that. The word is a cognate of the first part of the german "Mecklenburg" (transliterable to "Greatcastle"), which incidentally is also the translation used by J.R.R Tolkien for Moria : "Mickleburg".--AkselGerner (talk) 20:35, 6 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

reference request

I just added a second reference. If there is no further objection I will remove the reference tag soon.

By all means - although it would be helpful if you could also provide pages numbers for the references. Ben Mac Dui 21:09, 30 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Rearranged content

I rearranged the content of the page and divided it up into relevant sections. Since any attempt to compare the old/new version on the edit history will be completely broken, I should just explain what I've done here. I've added no new content to the page, I've changed nothing, and I've deleted nothing. Hopefully it should be more logically arranged now, but the lead section will probably need a few more sentences added to it to properly summarise the page content. Pasicles (talk) 20:15, 5 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Definition of "low road"

The article currently says "A Neolithic "low road" connects Maeshowe with the magnificently preserved village of Skara Brae". Can anyone clarify what this means? Google only turns up two other articles (Skara Brae and Ring of Brodgar) that use the same term, and a bunch of web pages that appear to be copied from here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.196.151.48 (talk) 00:42, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]