Talk:Dacorum
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The article states The name of the hundred, first recorded in 1196, is simply the Latin for "of the Danes", since the hundred lay within the Danelaw, the southern boundaries of both being formed by the River Lea. Since the River Lea lies to the east and north of Dacorum then this contradicts itself. I believe it meant the last Saxon land before the Danelaw. A sort of frontier zone. I will try to verify this. Lumos3 19:50, 3 May 2004 (UTC)
Heraldry
[edit]The heraldry information makes no sense, or if it does there's no reference to the correct Wikipedia articles for the reader to understand. 143.167.37.243 (talk) 19:21, 24 September 2023 (UTC)
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[edit]- "a] Dacorum literally means "of the Dacians", a term which was used in the Middle Ages for the Danes based on a legend (now dismissed as erroneous) that certain tribes from Dacia in south-eastern Europe had migrated to Denmark in the distant past."
It's not enough to make such a statement: you need to indicate a RS, a reliable source! The legend is so outlandish that it needs even more explaining than most statements around here, certainly not less. Arminden (talk) 22:49, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
- There is now a separate article on this confusion at Dacia (Scandinavia). I have reformulated the history section here with a link to that article, though the link may not be obvious to readers. Jähmefyysikko (talk) 15:30, 28 August 2025 (UTC)