Rory McTurk is Professor of Icelandic Studies at the University of Leeds. Previously he has taught at the Universities of Lund and Copenhagen and at University College, Dublin. He is the author of "Studies in Ragnars saga" "loobrokar and its Major Scandinavian Analogues" (1991) and "Chaucer and the Norse and Celtic Worlds" (2005), and has translated "Kormaks saga "for the Penguin "Sagas of Warrior-Poets" (2002).