Margaret Clunies Ross

Margaret Clunies Ross is the McCaughey Professor of English Language and Early English Literature and Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Sydney. Her main research areas are Old Norse-Icelandic Studies and the history of their study.^[1] Since 1997 she has led the project of editing a new edition of the corpus of skaldic poetry.^[1][2] She has also written articles on Australian Aboriginal rituals and contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Honours

Clunies Ross was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Gothenburg and is a Fellow (arbetande ledamot) of the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy.^[1]

Selected publications

• Prolonged echoes. Volume 1 Old Norse Myths in Medieval Northern Society. Volume 2 The Reception of Norse Myths in Medieval Iceland. The Viking Collection 7, 10. Odense: Odense University, 1994, 1998. ISBN 87-7838-008-1, ISBN 87-7838-332-3
• A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics. Cambridge: Brewer, 2005. ISBN 1-84384-034-0
• The Cambridge Introduction to the Old Norse-Icelandic Saga. Cambridge University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-521-51401-9
• (Ed.) Old Icelandic Literature and Society. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 42. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University, 2000. ISBN 0-521-63112-2
• (Ed. with Geraldine Barnes) Old Norse Myths, Literature and Society: Proceedings of the 11th International Saga Conference 2-7 July 2000, University of Sydney. Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Sydney, 2000, ISBN 1-86487-316-7. Repr. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2003. ISBN 87-7838-794-9

Festschrift

• Learning and Understanding in the Old Norse World: Essays in Honour of Margaret Clunies Ross. Ed. Judy Quinn, Kate Heslop, and Tarrin Wills. Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe 18. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007. ISBN 978-2-503-52580-8

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