Heather O'Donoghue

Heather O'Donoghue
O'Donoghue at the British Library in 2024
Academic work
Institutions	Linacre College, Oxford

Heather O'Donoghue is a British academic. She is Emeritus Professor of Old Norse and Vigfusson Rausing Reader in Ancient Icelandic Literature and Antiquities at the University of Oxford. ^[1] She is a Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford.

Selected publications

O'Donoghue's books include: ^[2]

• The genesis of a saga narrative : verse and prose in Kormaks saga. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1991. ISBN   0198117833. OCLC   22307211.
• Skaldic verse and the poetics of saga narrative. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2005. ISBN   0199267324. OCLC   58998791.
• Old Norse-Icelandic Literature : a Short Introduction. Blackwell Publishing. 2004. ISBN   9780470776834. OCLC   437218589.
• From Asgard to Valhalla : the remarkable history of the Norse myths. London: I.B. Tauris. 2007. ISBN   9781441615954. OCLC   430220001.
• O'Donoghue, Heather (17 July 2014). English poetry and Old Norse myth : a history. Oxford, United Kingdom. ISBN   9780191034367. OCLC   888057927.
• O'Donoghue, Heather (2021). Narrative in the Icelandic family saga : meanings of time in Old Norse literature. London, UK. ISBN   978-1-350-16744-5. OCLC   1198088531.

References

1. "Professor Heather O'Donoghue | Faculty of English". www.english.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
2. "Faculty of English | Language & Literature". www.english.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 July 2019.