How similar are Heimskringla and Egils saga? An application of Burrows’ delta to Icelandic texts
How similar are Heimskringla and Egils saga? An application of Burrows’ delta to Icelandic texts
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Heimskringla 和 Egils 的传奇故事有多相似？巴罗斯三角洲在冰岛文本中的应用
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10.1515/ejss-2018-0001
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发表时间：
2018
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0.1
通讯作者：
Haukur Þorgeirsson
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作者：
Haukur Þorgeirsson
摘要最近的方法和技术的发展极大地促进了文体学在作者归属中的应用。Burrows在2002年提出的delta方法已经被证明对不同语言的各种语料库都有很好的效果。本文表明，这种方法是非常有效的分析世纪冰岛小说。然后，该方法适用于两个世纪的文本之间的风格亲和力的经典问题：海姆斯克林拉和埃吉尔佐贺。海姆斯克林拉被证明更类似于埃吉尔佐贺，而不是各种当代文本，包括其他国王的传奇。这支持了这两个文本具有同一作者的理论。
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.