Joan Elizabeth Turville-Petre (B Litt, MA) (10 May 1911 - 9 March 2006) was a noted academic at Oxford University, England, in the field of Anglo-Saxon, Icelandic and Scandinavian language studies. The University of Oxford (informally "Oxford University" or simply "Oxford" located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England is the England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland
Joan Turville-Petre (née Blomfield) was the daughter of Sam Blomfield of Colchester, Essex. She studied at Somerville College, Oxford University and maintained a lifelong connection with the college. Somerville College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, and was one of the first Women's colleges to She was a Tutor and Fellow from 1941 – 6, a Lecturer in English from 1946 – 65 and an Honorary College Research Fellow from 1965 until her death in 2006.
On January 7, 1943, Joan Turville-Petre married Gabriel Turville-Petre, a fellow Oxford academic working in the same field. Events 1325 - Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal. 1558 - France takes Calais, the last continental Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Edward Oswald Gabriel Turville-Petre FBA (known as Gabriel (March 25 1908 &ndash February 17 1978 was Professor of Ancient Icelandic Literature and Antiquities at the They had three sons: Thorlac Francis Samuel (born January 6, 1944), Merlin Oswald (born July 2, 1946) and Brendan Arthur Auberon (16 September1948-6 Dec 1981). Events 1066 - Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England. 1205 - Philip of Swabia becomes King Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 310 - Pope Miltiades is elected 626 - In fear of assassination Li Shimin ambushes and kills his rival Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1400 - Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers Events 1060 - Béla I of Hungary is crowned king of Hungary 1240 - Mongol invasion of Rus: Kiev Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981
Joan Turville-Petre died at the age of 94.
Selected publications
- "Runes and the Gothic alphabet" Saga-Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research 12 (1937-45) 177–94; 209–31
- "Studies on the Ormulum MS. " Journal of English and German Philology 46(1) (January 1947), 1-27
- The story of Rauð and his sons Trans. from the Icelandic by J. E. Turville-Petre. Viking Society for Northern Research. Payne Memorial Series II. (1947)
- "Hengest and Horsa" Saga-Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research 14 (1953-7) 273-90
- "Sources of the Vernacular Homily in England, Norway and Iceland" Arkiv för Nordik Filologi 75 (1960), 168-82.
- "Translations of a Lost Penitential Homily" Traditio 19 (1963) 51-78
- "The metre of Icelandic court poetry" Saga-Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research 17 (1966-69) 326–51
- "Beowulf and Grettis saga: An excursion" Saga-Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research 19 (1974-77) 347–57
- "The genealogist and history: Ari to Snorri" Saga-Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research 20 (1978-81) 7–23
- The Old English "Exodus" Text, translation and commentary by J. R. R. Tolkien; edited by Joan Turville-Petre. Clarendon Press, Oxford (1981)
- Meulengracht Sørensen, Preben The unmanly man: concepts of sexual defamation in early northern society Trans. by Joan Turville-Petre. Odense: Odense University Press (1983)
- Jón Hnefill Aðalsteinsson A Piece of Horse Liver: Myth, Ritual, and Folklore in Old Icelandic Sources Trans. by Terry Gunnell and Joan Turville-Petre, Háskólaútgáfan Félagsvísindastofnun (1998)
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