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[edit] "Länsteater"
I am not sure if this is the right place or not. I am looking not for a translation, really, but a description of the concept "länsteater" - something that can be added after the name of such a theatre like, for instance, Gävleborgs Folkteater. I was thinking of something like "the theatre company of county X", but I am not sure about the term theatre company. It sounds more like something small and private, not like these institutional theatres. / Habj 03:53, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
- It would surprise me if not at least some of the länsteatrar had their own preferred English names. In either case, I think you should ask Bishonen about this. She might have an idea. Uppland 06:23, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
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- That is two different issues, really - one how you translate the name, if you do. In cases where there is no generally accepted English translation, I guess it is better to stick to the Swedish name and explain it after the name. It was such an explanation I was asking for. But sure, if there is an accepted translation... / Habj 14:33, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Broken link in Glossaries
The link "Leved of Local Democracy in Sweden" [sic] is broken. Tamino 10:57, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Götar <-> Geats
This is not a good translation. Geats is not really an English word. There was an Anglo-Saxon word Geatas, that was almost exclusively used in Beowulf, for a tribe that cannot be unambiguously located. That text was only published after 1800. It did not exist in English when Sweden had its gothicist period. The kings' title in the international language of the time included Rex Gothorum, "King of the Goths", a claim of kinship with the tribes that had brought down the Roman empire. That is why it is horribly anachronistic to translate Göteborg as Geatsburg - the name of the city had nothing to do with some dragonslayer in a long-forgotten epic. Its translation was Gothenburg. So I am removing this item as a suggested translation from the list on Wikipedia:Swedish Wikipedians' notice board/Terminology#History. /Pieter Kuiper (talk) 20:56, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
- I think we should stick to the translation provided by Sweden's standard Swedish-English dictionary Norstedts stora svensk-engelska ordbok, per WP:RS, WP:Verifiability and WP:NOR. It says that götar translates as Geats.--Berig (talk) 11:57, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
