33.3267, Books: Dating the Old Norse ''Poetic Edda'': Sapp

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Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:47:24
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Dating the Old Norse ''Poetic Edda'': Sapp

 


Title: Dating the Old Norse "Poetic Edda" 
Subtitle: A multifactorial analysis of linguistic features 
Series Title: Studies in Germanic Linguistics   5  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/sigl.5 


Author: Christopher D. Sapp

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027257710 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027257710 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 88.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027257710 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027211156 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027211156 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 88.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027211156 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 111.30


Abstract:

This book offers new dating of the poems of the Old Norse "Poetic Edda",
perhaps our best sources about the mythology and legends of the Viking Age.
This study compares the anonymous Eddic poems to dated skaldic poems with
respect to five phenomena that develop diachronically in early Old Norse: the
expletive particle "of", types of negation, word order, types of relative
clause, and metrical criteria. After examining these dating features
individually, the three most reliable criteria—the particle of, negation, and
relative clause type—are combined into a multifactorial analysis using a Naïve
Bayes Classifier. The classifier assigns a date to each Eddic poem, and these
proposed dates have interesting implications for our understanding of these
texts as sources for the medieval history, mythology, linguistics, and
literature of the Germanic peoples. This book will have broad
interdisciplinary interest, not just to historical linguists and philologists
but also to scholars of Norse history, literature, and mythology.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Ling & Literature


Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=163238




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