Eleanor Parker

Eleanor Parker is Lecturer in Medieval English Literature at Brasenose College, Oxford. She is the author of Dragon Lords: The History and Legends of Viking England (2018), Conquered: The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England (2022), and Winters in the World: A Journey Through the Anglo-Saxon Year (2022), and is the co-editor, with Professor Heather O'Donoghue, of The Cambridge History of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature (2024). 

Tolkien-related Publications:

‘Tolkien and the Anglo-Saxon calendar’, Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series, Oxford (2024)

‘Tolkien's Sigurd and Gudrún’, Illuminations of the Fantastic 8 (2021)

‘The Scholar’s Tale’, History Today 70:2 (2020)

‘Tolkien’s Medieval Languages: Old Norse’, lecture at the Bodleian Library, Oxford (2018) https://writersinspire.org/content/old-norse-tree-tongues-tolkiens-medieval-languages