Shannon Lewis-Simpson. Vínland Revisited: The Norse World at the Turn of the First Millennium
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Abstract
This book emerges from the ten day Viking Millennium International Symposium held in Newfoundland and Labrador in September 2000.The range of papers and contributors to the volume reflects the diversity of the conference participants.Here the reader will find essays ranging from anecdotal narratives about L'Anse aux Meadows and the role of re-enactors in the World Heritage site to academically founded research articles covering topics such as identity, faith, philology, environmental impacts, and cultural contacts.The contributors include established researchers, new scholars, museum curators and Norse enthusiasts from both North America and Europe.The book has been divided into three broad sections.The first section of the book, entitled "Voyage to Vínland," contains twelve papers that can be further sub-divided into those that address the identity of the migrants and those that examine Norse Greenland.The issue of ethnicity and identity introduces the section, beginning with Peter Sawyer's keynote address.Among the papers which follow, Przemysław Urbańczyk challenges traditional assumptions about the homogeneous nature of the settlers, proposing a more multi-cultural migrant community and criticizing the application of modern (or even medieval) ethnic boundaries to Norse society.Colleen Batey's essay examines the role of the Scottish Isles in the Norse expansion, while Birgit Sawyer presents a picture of the Scandinavian homelands at the time of the Viking Age.The second half of section one has a particularly, but not exclusively, archaeological approach to Greenland.Svend Albrethsen presents a detailed analysis of the earliest farm structures in the Western Settlement, while Niels Lynnerup's study establishes a paleodemographic profile of the Norse settlements in Greenland based on population models, settlement sizes and grave sites.Jette Arneborg examines the relationship between the Greenlandic archaeological remains and the textual sources, concluding that written accounts of violent clashes between the settlers and the Inuit are unsupported.Section two, "Society, Culture and Settlement," begins with a series of papers examining L'Anse aux Meadows and the surrounding region.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.001 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".