Rory McTurk
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British philologist
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Rory McTurk's Degrees
- Bachelors English Language and Literature University of Oxford
- Masters English Language and Literature University of Oxford
- PhD Old Norse Literature University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Rory W. McTurk is a British philologist. McTurk graduated from Oxford University in 1963. He took a further degree at the University of Iceland in 1965, and subsequently taught at Lund University, the University of Copenhagen, and University College Dublin. He took up a post at the University of Leeds in 1978, where he has gained the position of Professor Emeritus of Icelandic Studies. McTurk has authored, edited and translated many works on Icelandic literature, including the works of Steinnun Sigurðardóttir. He is a recipient of the Order of the Falcon.
Rory McTurk's Published Works
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Published Works
- A Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture (2004) (35)
- Beowulf and Celtic tradition (1981) (10)
- A Critical Companion to Old Norse Literary Genre (2020) (5)
- Constructing a Cult: The Life and Veneration of Guðmundr Arason (1161–1237) in the Icelandic Written Sources (2013) (5)
- Studies in Ragnars saga loðbrʹokar and its major Scandinavian analogues (1991) (4)
- Samuel Ferguson’s ‘Death-Song’ (1833): An Anglo-Irish Response to Krákumál (2007) (3)
- Sagas of warrior-poets (2002) (3)
- Cynewulf and Cyneheard and the Icelandic Sagas (1981) (2)
- Tolkien’s Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún: Creative Drama or Scholarly Exercise? (2013) (2)
- Review: Handbook of Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies. Interdisciplinary approaches (2020) (2)
- The Balanced Parallel in Beowulf (2006) (1)
- Chaucer and the Norse and Celtic Worlds (2017) (1)
- Chaucer and Giraldus Cambrensis (1998) (1)
- Anonymous Poems, Krákumál 19 (2017) (1)
- Male or Female Initiation? The Strange Case of Ragnars saga (2007) (1)
- Kings and kingship in Viking Northumbria (2015) (1)
- Variation in Beowulf and the Poetic Edda: A Chronological Experiment (1997) (0)
- The Book of Reykjavik (2022) (0)
- RATTUS RATTUS AS A BEAST OF BATTLE?: STANZA 12 OF RAGNARS SAGA (2014) (0)
- Contrapuntal Alliteration in Piers Plowman and Skaldic Poetry (2019) (0)
- Review: Emotion in Old Norse Literature: Translations, Voices, Contexts (2018) (0)
- Anonymous Lausavísur, Lausavísur from Ragnars saga loðbrókar 8 (2017) (0)
- Book reviews (2005) (0)
- Anonymous Poems, Krákumál 22 (2017) (0)
- Review: In Prayer and Laughter: Essays on Medieval Scandinavian and Germanic Mythology, Literature and Culture (2018) (0)
- Anonymous Poems, Krákumál 5 (2017) (0)
- Text - Anonymous fornaldarsögur, Ragnars sona þáttr (2017) (0)
- Anonymous fornaldarsögur, Ragnars saga loðbrókar (2017) (0)
- Snorri Sturluson’s Skáldskaparmál and Chaucer’s House of Fame (2003) (0)
- Text - Anonymous fornaldarsögur, Ragnars saga loðbrókar (2017) (0)
- Redemption through Iambic Reversal? The Case of Henryson’s Cresseid (2010) (0)
- Snorra Edda as Menippean Satire (2011) (0)
- Review: Discourse in Old Norse Literature (2022) (0)
- St Erkenwald and the Legendary History of St Paul’s (2021) (0)
- Review: Narrative in the Icelandic Family Saga (2022) (0)
- Text - Anonymous fornaldarsögur, Sǫrla þáttr (2017) (0)
- Anonymous Poems, Sǫrlastikki 1 (2017) (0)
- Stanza - Anonymous Lausavísur, Lausavísur from Ragnars saga loðbrókar 9 (2017) (0)
- Review: The Saint and the Saga Hero and Damnation and Salvation in Old Norse Literature / Damnation and Salvation in Old Norse Literature (2019) (0)
- Rattus rattus as a Beast of Battle? Stanza 12 of Ragnars Saga (2020) (0)
- Review: The Arthur of the North: The Arthurian Legend in the Norse and Rus’ Realms (2017) (0)
- Chaucer and Old Norse Mythology (2000) (0)
- Anonymous fornaldarsögur, Ragnars sona þáttr (2017) (0)
- Review: A sense of belonging: Morkinskinna and Icelandic identity, c. 1220 (2015) (0)
- Recesses of the Mind: Aesthetics in the Work of Guðbergur Bergsson by Birna Bjarnadóttir (review) (2014) (0)
- Review: Earl R. Anderson, Understanding ‘Beowulf’ as an Indo-European Epic: A Study in Comparative Mythology. Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010. (2012) (0)
- Anonymous Poems, Krákumál (2017) (0)
- Anonymous fornaldarsögur, Sǫrla þáttr (2017) (0)
- Chaucer, Gerald of Wales, and Ireland (2017) (0)
- Chaucer and Snorri (2017) (0)
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