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Reviewer: Malleus Fatuorum (talk · contribs) 17:12, 15 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Name

  • I've been doing a bit of copyediting as I've been looking through the article, which I hope you don't mind. I wasn't quite sure about this though: "... some have further speculated that Augvald might have been identical with Harald Agdekonge." On the presumption that what's being said here is that they might be the same person, could we not drop the rather strangely phrased "might have been identical with" and simply say "was"?
    • Done.

Background

  • "Augvald was originally based with his throne at an otherwise unknown location called "Roga" in "Jøsursheid". Not quite sure what this is trying to say, as knowing a name tells us nothing about a location, so why "otherwise unknown"?
    • Done.
  • "Historian P. A. Munch believed this to be somewhere in the mountains between Rogaland and Telemark, based on that he found a place called Jøsureid in Kviteseid in western Telemark. In what sense did he find the place? On a map? Archaeologically?

Aftermath

  • "Augvald's son Jøsur succeeded his father as king of Rogaland and parts of Hordaland". I can't but feel there's a bit of the story missing here. Ferking's just got the hump and eliminated Augvald in battle, yet he simply allows Augvald's son to carry on as normal?
    • Since Ferking was just a petty local king, he probably did not have the means or will to take over Augvald's large kingdom. Jøsur could thus easily have succeeded Augvald. As far as I can tell, the sources in any case don't describe this in details. Thhist (talk) 13:49, 16 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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