Edward Oswald Gabriel Turville-Petre was an English philologist who specialized in Old Norse studies. Born at Bosworth Hall, Leicestershire to a prominent Catholic family, Turville-Petre was educated in English at the University of Oxford under the tutelage of J. R. R. Tolkien.
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Landscape at Laugavegur, Iceland. Turville-Petre conducted much of his research in Iceland through hiking in the Icelandic countryside.
Royal mounds at Gamla Uppsala, where many events of Old Norse literature take place
Detail from a 13th-century manuscript of the sagas of Icelanders
Snorri Sturluson by Christian Krohg (1890s). Turville-Petre argued that Sturluson's writings on Norse mythology were mostly based on authentic material, and partially derived from earlier Germanic and Indo-European components.
Picture of Egill Skallagrímsson in the 17th century manuscript of Egil's Saga. Turville-Petre's research in later life strongly centered on pieces of Old Norse poetry such as Egil's Saga.
Joan Turville-Petre, 1943Awards 4
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Hjalmar ProcopéAlso won Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Falcon
Matti KlingeAlso won honorary doctor of the University of Uppsala
Bodil BegtrupAlso won Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Falcon
Sigurður HelgasonAlso won honorary doctorate at the University of IcelandAbout this person
Edward Oswald Gabriel Turville-Petre was an English philologist who specialized in Old Norse studies. Born at Bosworth Hall, Leicestershire to a prominent Catholic family, Turville-Petre was educated in English at the University of Oxford under the tutelage of J. R. R. Tolkien. He eventually became Professor of Ancient Icelandic Literature and Antiquities at the University of Oxford and a leading member of the Viking Society for Northern Research. He was the husband of fellow philologist Joan Turville-Petre, who was a scholar of Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse studies at Oxford. Turville-Petre was the author of numerous works on Old Norse literature and religion which have remained influential up to the present day.
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