A Networks-Science Investigation into the Epic Poems of Ossian — mentioned by bigbillheck

Thu, 25 Jan 2024 13:40:29 GMT

Usually the "I found and translated this old work" gimmick is presented within the text, not outside it. That aside, digital humanities work can be interesting, but I found a preprint of the actual paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.00142.pdf) and their conclusion seems to be "Ossian is closer to these Irish works than it is to Homer". I'm not going to bother digging into their methods to see if they're plausible, but it's not clear to me why you'd expect anything else, or be able to conclude much of anything from that. If Ossian were real, then you'd expect later sources like "Acallam na…

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A Networks-Science Investigation into the Epic Poems of Ossian — mentioned by bigbillheck