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Record W1514588938 · doi:10.1484/j.nms.1.100774

Malory, the Orkneys, and the Sinclairs

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Kate A McClune

Bibliographic record

VenueNottingham Medieval Studies · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHistorical Studies of British Isles
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersDalhousie University
KeywordsScotsNorwegianParallelsRomanceLiteratureHistorySimilarity (geometry)Variety (cybernetics)Reading (process)ArtClassicsGenealogyPhilosophyLinguisticsComputer science

Abstract

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This paper argues that there are strong parallels between the literary Orkneys — Gawain and his brothers — and the Scots family Sinclair, associated, like their literary forebears, with Orkney, Norway, and Lothian. It suggests that the Dalhousie Manuscript, a text linked to the Sinclairs and which comprises a variety of Norwegian, Orcadian, and Scots materials, reflects Sinclair recognition of their Arthurian ‘brothers’, and that they may have identified the similarity between their family and Gawain’s either as a result of reading Scots insular writings, chronicle, and romance, or — potentially — through Malory’s Morte Darthur. It is proposed that further research be undertaken on the circulation of William Caxton’s prints in Scotland, and the potential accessibility of Malory’s text to a Scottish audience.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.175
Threshold uncertainty score0.348

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0090.016
Scholarly communication0.0040.002
Open science0.0000.003
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.028
GPT teacher head0.245
Teacher spread0.217 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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