Carolyne Larrington is a Supernumerary Teaching Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford. She publishes on mythological and legendary subjects in European literature. Her works on Old Norse-Icelandic include her translation of The Poetic Edda (Oxford World’s Classics, 1996) and The Poetic Edda: Essays on Old Norse Mythology, co-edited with Paul Acker (New York, 2002).