Portal talk:Ancient Germanic culture

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On the "Did you know" section, isn't it true that the figure of Santa Claus is at the least a composite of the god you mentioned and St. Nicholas?

The phrase "the Rohirrim are clearly Anglo-Saxons" is pretty strongly POV; there are definite parallels but aren't the Anglo-Saxons" a specific people group and Tolkien said that the Rohirrim were meant to more vaguely resemble a Northern, possibly Norse culture? Edonovan 23:31, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

I agree -- the language of Tolkien's Rohirrim is based on Anglo-Saxon, but the culture is a lot closer to that of steppe pastoralists like the Ostrogoths or Sarmatians. Abou 02:15, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

the historic "kernel"? Clovis was a "climacteirc"? these words are............unusual. consider coming with more common phrases so more people can understand this - Bagel7

[edit] Markup changes

Does anyone have a screenshot of the older markup causing content to flow outside the div boundaries, or at least a description of a platform it happens on? I'm not sure why it would happen at all.

I'm going to go ahead and clean up some of the markup in a few stages over the next couple of days; if it breaks in anything, I'd appreciate an immediate heads-up. But this page currently (due to the extra tables) looks substantially different from most other portals and just generally sticks out a bit.

Also, if there aren't any objections it would probably be a good idea to split the different boxes off so the wikisource is less complicated. Portal:American football is an example of this. Aluvus 16:46, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

• I should say, to move the markup for the boxes into their subpages so it is mostly out of the page wikisource. Aluvus 17:12, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
• Markup is cleaner and mostly done. The old problem of text overflowing the divs was almost certainly due to specifying the heights of the divs [1] Aluvus 19:14, 31 May 2006 (UTC)