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## 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.
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- Author
- Haukur Þorgeirsson
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)