Helen Damico, Date of Birth

Helen Damico

Date of Birth: 30-Jan-1931

Profession: Scandinavian studies scholar

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Helen Damico is a scholar of Old English and Old English literature.
She received her Ph.D.
from New York University in 1980, and is a professor emerita at the University of New Mexico, where she began teaching in 1981 and founded the Institute for Medieval Studies.
The author of Beowulf's Wealhtheow and the Valkyrie Tradition, Damico has made important contributions to the study of women in Old English and Old Norse literature, and her work on Wealhþeow is frequently cited.
She saw representations of the valkyrie in both Wealhþeow and Grendel's Mother Damico sees in the Old English poem Beowulf (c.
700–1000 AD).