Margaret Clunies Ross, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetMargaret Clunies Ross
Australian scholar of Old Norse literature
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Place of Birth: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
About Margaret Clunies Ross
- Margaret Beryl Clunies Ross (born 24 April 1942) is a medievalist who was until her retirement in 2009 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.
- Since 1997 she has led the project of editing a new edition of the corpus of skaldic poetry.
- She has also written articles on Australian Aboriginal rituals and contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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