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An information-theoretic approach to the written transmission of old English

✍ Scribed by O'Keeffe, KatherineO'Brien ;Rundell, William

Publisher
Springer
Year
1989
Tongue
English
Weight
758 KB
Volume
23
Category
Article
ISSN
0010-4817

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✦ Synopsis

Information theory offers a means for analyzing some constraints on the reading and copying process in Old English. Entropy for strings of various lengths offers a baseline measure of the uncertainty involved in transmission of Old English texts, while avoiding the pitfalls of applying models of modern reading to early medieval practice. Analysis of lengthy prose and verse texts in Old English revealed uniformly high values for entropy at all string lengths. High entropies may be the result of the language's irregular orthography, poetic koin6, and several dialects and imply that the language may have been easy to write but difficult to read. The low redundancy of the language which its h~gn entropy values indicate su~,ests that the reader of Old English played an enhanced role in "'decoding" a text and may provide an explanation for the high variability in the transmission of Old English verse.

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