Beowulf Unlocked: New Evidence from Lexomic Analysis

Table of Contents

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

2 Lexomic Methods

 2.1 Hierarchical Agglomerative Cluster Analysis

 2.2 Interpreting Dendrogram Geometries

3 Text Preparation of Beowulf

 3.1 Text Preparation: Orthography 

 3.2 Text Preparation: Edition and Text

4 Cluster Analysis of Beowulf

 4.1 Identifying Segment Boundaries: Screening

 4.2 Identifying Segment Boundaries in the A-Scribe Text

  4.2.2 Hinting Segment Boundaries

  4.2.3 Finding Robust Geometries Using Blending

  4.2.4 Segment Boundaries for the A-Scribe Dendrogram

  4.2.5 Analysis of the A-Scribe Dendrogram

 4.3 Identifying Segment Boundaries in the B-Scribe Text

  4.3.1 Screening the B-Scribe Text

  4.3.2 Identifying Segments in the B-Scribe Text

 4.4 Analysis of the A-Scribe and B-Scribe Texts Together

  4.4.1 Segment J

 4.5 Synthesis of Cluster Analysis of Beowulf

5 Interpretation of the Cluster Analysis

 5.2 High-Level Similarities and Differences

 5.3 Interwoven Discourses

5.4 Sources

  5.4.1 Unferth and Breca

  5.4.2 Finnsburg and Danish History

 5.5 Structure

  5.5.1 Two- and Three-Part Structures

  5.5.2 Alternate Structures

 5.6 Implications for Authorship Hypotheses

 5.7 Implications for Dating

6 Conclusions Drawn from Cluster Analysis

Bibliography