Joanne Findon, <i>Bound and Free: Voices of Mortal and Otherworld Women in Medieval Irish Literature.</i> Studies and Texts, 236. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2024, x , 219 pp.
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Abstract
A statuette of a naked Gaulish dancer, her image appearing on its front and back covers, makes Bound and Free a book to catch one’s eye; and its subject (women in Irish saga) raises expectations. The study has two parts, the first (on mortal women) having three chapters. We start with Nes, mother-figure in The Conception of Cú Chulainn , a love story composed in about 800 C.E. There is more about love thereafter with Deirdre of the Sorrows (famous from Synge’s play of 1909) and analysis of the feminine in her tale’s ninth-century original. Also of the ninth century (and concluding this section) is The Death of Aífe’s Only Son , a somber narrative, for its subject is a youth killed by his own father, the Ulster champion Cú Chulainn.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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 teacher head, 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".