The Road to Hel: A Study of the Conception of the Dead in Old Norse Literature
H.R. Ellis Davidson
4.33 · 6 ratings · Published: 1943
She is a lecturer and also holds a Calouste Gulbenkian Research Fellowship at the Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, and is working on eastern influences on the pre-Christian religion in Northern Europe.
[From "Gods and Myths of the Viking Age", 1980.]
Sometime Marion Kennedy Research Student of Newnham College, Assistant Lecturer in English Royal Holloway College.
[From "The Road to Hel" reprint, 1968].
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