Foreword Podcast - S1E1 Viking Culture
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Abstract
What image comes to mind when you hear the word Vikings? A violent warrior society, raiding and pillaging? A seafaring people trading and migrating across vast distances of the North Atlantic? Vikings have a hold on the popular imagination, but new directions in Norse studies might just challenge our preconceptions of who and what the Vikings were. We spoke with professors Andrew McDonald and Angus Somerville from Brock University's Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies about their research into gender roles in Viking society. Dr. Andrew McDonald is a professor with the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Department of History. In July 2019, Professor McDonald launched his book The Sea Kings: The Late Norse Kingdoms of Man and the Isles c. 1066-1275, which went on to be shortlisted for Scotland’s prestigious Saltire Society Literary Awards. Dr. Angus Somerville is a retired professor of English. He taught Old Norse, Anglo-Saxon, and Middle English language and literature while at Brock and won two awards for his teaching. Professor Somerville has published on authors Evelyn Waugh, Robert Graves, Martin Seymour-Smith, and Michael Polanyi. He has worked for almost forty years on The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (published by Oxford University Press). Professors McDonald and Somerville co-authored the book The Vikings and Their Age and have recently released an updated edition of their textbook, A Viking Age Reader, with University of Toronto Press. Find a full transcript at https://brocku.ca/humanities/foreword Links The Sea Kings: The Late Norse Kingdoms of Man and the Isles c. 1066-1275 (Andrew McDonald, John Donald/Birlinn, 2019) A Viking Age Reader, Third Edition (Angus Sommerville and Andrew McDonald, University of Toronto Press, 2020) The Vikings and Their Age (Angus Sommerville and Andrew McDonald, University of Toronto Press, 2013) The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford University Press) Andrew McDonald faculty profile Brock prof returns to land of Vikings for book launch (Brock News, 24 July 2019) Viking book shortlisted for prestigious prize (Brock News, 11 Nov. 2019) Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Brock University Faculty of Humanities, Brock University Credits We love to hear from our listeners! Join us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @brockhumanities. Please subscribe and rate us on your favourite podcasting app so you don’t miss an episode. Learn more about the Faculty of Humanities, including our events, programs of study, and departments, online. Foreword is hosted and produced by Alison Innes for the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University. Sound design and editing by Serena Atallah. Theme music is by Khalid Imam. Special thanks to Brock University’s MakerSpace and Brock University Marketing and Communications for studio and web support. This podcast is financially supported by the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.616 | 0.331 |
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".