| | TextCritical Report of Interest |
 | | The challenge, reproduced below, was to re-create by statistical or numerical means alone the table of relationships for some 44 manuscripts of the Old Norse narrative "Svipdagsmal" established by me on the basis of external evidence and traditional stemmatic methods. |
 | | The Challenge: Prove Housman Wrong The Old Norse narrative sequence "Svipdagsmal", comprising two poems "Grougaldr" and "Fjolsvinnsmal" together about 1500 words long, survives in 47 manuscripts known to me. These manuscripts were written in Iceland, Denmark and Sweden between 1650 and 1830. |
 | | The analysis of the Svipdagsmal material used none of these facilities, and it is likely that its results could have been impoved yet further had they been used. |
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