Nora Kershaw Chadwick

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Nora Kershaw Chadwick was a twentieth century British scholar of traditional literature. She collaborated with her husband, Hector Munro Chadwick, on a multi-volume survey of oral traditions and oral poetry. It was published by Cambridge University Press between 1932 and 1940:

• The Growth of Literature:

I: The Ancient Literatures of Europe (1932)

II: Russian Oral Literature, Yugoslav Oral Poetry, Early Indian Literature, Early Hebrew Literature (1936)

III: The Oral Literature of the Tatars and Polynesia, etc. (1940)

Later Nora Chadwick collaborated with V. M. Zhirmunsky on a revision of the part of volume III that deals with epic poetry in Central Asian languages. The revised text was published separately in 1969 as Oral Epics of Central Asia.

She also wrote about Celtic Britain and Breton history, and collaborated with Myles Dillon, Kenneth H. Jackson.

In 1949 she wrote Early Scotland.

In 1965 she published The colonization of Brittany from Celtic Britain.