Carolyne Larrington

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Carolyne Larrington (born 1959) [1] is a Professor of Medieval European Literature and Official Fellow of St John's College at the University of Oxford. Her research has primarily been on Old Norse and medieval Arthurian literature. Her areas of focus have included how emotion and women are portrayed. [2]

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