Cladistic Analysis of an Old Norse Manuscript Tradition
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Peter M.W. Robinson
Computers and Manuscripts Project
Oxford University Computing Services
13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN U.K.
Robert J. O’Hara
Department of Philosophy and The Zoological Museum
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Madison, Wisconsin 53706 U.S.A.
The Old Norse narrative sequence Svipdagsmál, consisting of the poems Gróugaldr and Fjölsvinnsmál, together about 1500 words in length, is extant in forty-six manuscripts written between 1650 and 1830. In preparing his edition of Svipdagsmál, Robinson (1991) transcribed and collated forty-three of these manuscripts by computer, and stored the results of the collation in a relational database.1 From close examination of the distribution of the variant readings as stored in the database, and from the relatively ample external evidence concerning the history of these late manuscripts, a stemma, or tree of the historical relationships of the manuscripts, was constructed (Fig. 1). The construction of manuscript stemmata such as this is one of the central challenges in the field of textual criticism...
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