How similar are Heimskringla and Egils saga? An application of Burrows’ delta to Icelandic texts
Abstract: Recent methodological and technological developments greatly facilitate the use of stylometry for authorship attribution. Burrows’ delta method, proposed in 2002, has been shown to yield good results for a variety of corpora in different languages. The present article demonstrates that this method is highly effective in analysing 19th century Icelandic fiction. The method is then applied to the classical question of the stylistic affinity between two 13th century texts: Heimskringla and Egils saga. Heimskringla proves to be more similar to Egils saga than it is to a variety of contemporary texts, including other kings’ sagas. This supports the theory that the two texts have the same author.
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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How similar are Heimskringla and Egils saga? An application of Burrows’ delta to Icelandic texts ; volume:48 ; number:1 ; year:2018 ; pages:1-18 ; extent:18
European journal of Scandinavian studies ; 48, Heft 1 (2018), 1-18 (gesamt 18)
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Þorgeirsson, Haukur
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10.1515/ejss-2018-0001
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2412131723255.055747314076
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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