Curated playlist
Old Norse studies scholars
- François-Xavier DillmannFrançois-Xavier Dillmann's French translation of Snorri Sturluson's Edda came out in 1991.
- John LindowJohn Lindow became a Berkeley authority on Old Norse myth, Sami and Finnish mythology, and Inuit religion.
- Joan Turville-PetreJoan Turville-Petre, an English philologist, was married on the 7th of January 1943 with no guests in attendance. Two friends did stand beside the couple as witnesses: J. R. R. Tolkien and his wife Edith. The groom, Gabriel Turville-Petre,…
- Hilda Ellis DavidsonHilda Ellis Davidson used burial mounds to study Norse beliefs, which was almost heretical in 1943.
- Rudolf SimekOne Austrian scholar wrote a book tracing trolls from Norse myth to the internet.
- Gabriel Turville-PetreIn August 1942, the Foreign Office sent Gabriel Turville-Petre to the Faroe Islands for two months. The stated purpose was "in order to study the inhabitants, their politics and conditions of life." Edward Oswald Gabriel Turville-Petre was…
- Rasmus B. AndersonRasmus B. Anderson started the push to give Leif Erikson a day on the American calendar.
- Georges DumézilGeorges Dumézil was shut out of French academic jobs after his thesis. His teacher told him to go abroad, to Istanbul.
- Kevin Crossley-HollandKevin Crossley-Holland failed his first Oxford exams, then found his lifelong passion. It was Anglo-Saxon literature.
- Peter Andreas MunchPeter Andreas Munch, a trained lawyer, became Norway's leading medieval historian. He also entered the Vatican archives.