Chapter published in:
Dating the Old Norse Poetic Edda
: A multifactorial analysis of linguistic featuresChristopher D. Sapp
[Studies in Germanic Linguistics 5] 2022
► pp. 177–204
Chapter 8A multivariate system of dating Eddic poetry
Article outline
- 8.1Background
- 8.1.1Text classification with Naïve Bayes Classifiers
- 8.1.2Applying Naïve Bayes Classifiers to philology
- 8.2Dating Eddic poems by the Naïve Bayes Classifier
- 8.2.1Training the model on the skaldic data
- 8.2.2The NBC model and its application to the Eddic poems
- 8.3Implications of the proposed dates
- 8.3.1Comparison to classifications by other scholars
- 8.3.2Evaluation of other dating criteria
- 8.3.3On the ages of the individual poems
- 8.4Discussion and conclusion
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