Carolyne larrington biography examples

Carolyne Larrington is Professor of Medieval European Literature, University of Oxford, and Official Fellow and Tutor in Medieval English, St John’s College, Oxford.

Carolyne larrington biography examples

She teaches Old and Middle English, Old Norse and the English language to undergraduates and supervises dissertations in a range of medieval and modern literary fields. Her first degree was in medieval English language and literature from St Catherine’s College, Oxford and she wrote her DPhil thesis on gnomic poetry in Old English and Old Norse, published as A Store of Common Sense: Gnomic Themes and Style in Old Icelandic and Old English Wisdom Poetry (Oxford 1993).

Her research interests range widely between Old Norse-Icelandic, Arthurian literature, medieval European secular literature and, more recently, medievalism.
She has published the leading English language translation of the Old Norse Poetic Edda, 2nd edn (Oxford 2014) and edited a numb