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First powered Icelandic boat

Members may be interested in the discussion in WT:SHIPS about whether Stanley (boat) meets WP:GNG. The stub is now sourced and there is more content at is:Stanley (bátur), sourced to this article. Unfortunately, GoogleTranslate doesn't seem to cope with Icelandic very idiomatically. Can anyone here assist with this? Davidships (talk) 10:31, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

Should Earl and Jarl be split?

Please comment at Talk:Earl#Split article? to give your opinion on whether text on the Scandinavian jarl should be moved to Jarl (title), which currently redirects to Earl. Thanks. Ltwin (talk) 01:55, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

Translating "Baðstofa"

In the article Agnes Magnúsdóttir this was translated as "bathroom". Having recently read the book Burial Rites based on her life, and struggled to understand this word, I'm fairly sure that's not the best translation for an early 19th-century house. I've edited the article to give an inter-wiki link and added "((the main living space of the house)", but someone more familiar with Iceland and Icelandic could certainly do better. Over to you. PamD 18:18, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

According to Árnastofnun, the english translation is communal living room. Baðstofa seems to have originally have been some kind of a sauna according to the Icelandic Web of Science (run by the University of Iceland). By the 16th century it had transformed into the main living space of a house. Alvaldi (talk) 18:38, 21 March 2024 (UTC)