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Record W2597673948 · doi:10.63420/anf.v130i.27706

Iceland, Thule, and the Tilensian Precedent in Medieval Historiography

2025· article· en· W2597673948 on OpenAlexaff
Dale Kedwards

Bibliographic record

VenueArkiv för nordisk filologi · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHistorical and Archaeological Studies
Canadian institutionsYork University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHistoriographyHistoryArchaeologyArtAncient history

Abstract

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This article brings into focus the convention of calling Iceland by the name Thule, best known to scholars of Old Norse literature from the prologue to Landnámabók. I review the occurences of this convention in Icelandic and other European literatures in order to characterise its contemporary historiographical usage. I show that medieval historians used the antique name Thule (and demonym Tilenses) to extend Icelandic history into classical antiquity, and show the relatedness of their native historiographical endeavours to pan-European written traditions. This article then examines the appearance of the names Iceland and Thule on contemporary world maps, and asks whether or not an Icelandic map, which charts both names, could be a visual manifestation of the convention encountered elsewhere in the Icelandic Landnámabók and Breta sögur.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation 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: none
Teacher disagreement score0.877
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.012
GPT teacher head0.203
Teacher spread0.191 · 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 teacher head, 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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