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Literary and Linguistic Computing 1989 4(3):174-181; doi:10.1093/llc/4.3.174
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The Collation and Textual Criticism of Icelandic Manuscripts (2):Textual Criticism

P. M. W. ROBINSON

University of Oxford UK

Peter Robinson, Wadham College, Oxford 0X1 3PN, UK
Special techniques had to be developed to analyse the results of a machine collation of forty-four manuscripts of two Old Norse poems, described in an earlier article First, the results were cast into traditional formats. The volume of material made analysis of these unproductive.

The results were then fed into a relational database. This enabled validation of the collation, and also speedy development and testing of hypotheses concerning manuscript relations Tables summarizing numbers of readings shared by each manuscript with every other were also generated by the database Most usefully, the database generated sets of readings characteristic of particular manuscript groups It compared each manuscript of these sets, and this enabled a complete classification of all forty-four manuscripts It also provided facilities for coping with the problems of contamination and convergent variation This approach may prove the ideal springboard for future, more sophisticated, statistical analysis


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