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Two Rivers and the Origins of Olaf Cuaran

2005· book-chapter· en· W4388058257 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Benjamin Hudson

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHistorical Studies of British Isles
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDescendantAnnalsGenealogyIrishLegendKingdomHistoryQuarter (Canadian coin)Ancient historyClassicsLiteratureGeographyArtPhilosophyArchaeologyBiologyLinguistics

Abstract

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Abstract THE FIRST FACT about Olaf Cuaran is that his father, Sitric, was active in Ireland and Britain in the first quarter of the tenth century. This simple statement helps to explain Olaf’s career and the preoccupations of his descendants. Like his parent, Olaf ruled kingdoms in two islands, married princesses from among his enemies, and entered legend. The ancestry of Sitric and two other Vikings named Ragnall and Godfrey has been a matter of dispute. Irish writers describe Sitric, Ragnall, and Godfrey as the “descendants of lvar” (Uilmair) or the “kindred of Ivar” (clann lmair). Are these descriptions of family lineage, or are they a generic designation of Vikings whose ancestry is otherwise unknown? In the contemporary record in the Annals of Ulster the designation “descendant of Ivar” is used only during a period of forty-two years, from 896 to 937. This actually overstates matters a bit. Prior to 914 the phrase is used twice, in 896 for an Amlaim h[ua] lmair and in 904 for mar h[ua]lmair. From 914, and for the next twenty-four years, this identification is used for only four men: Sitric, Ragnall, Godfrey, and Godfrey’s son Olaf. Godfrey’s other sons are described as “sons of Godfrey.”

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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 categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.952
Threshold uncertainty score0.995

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 studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.000

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 head0.022
GPT teacher head0.199
Teacher spread0.176 · 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.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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