Gabriel Turville-Petre

Gabriel Turville-Petre
Turville-Petre in 1972
Born	(1908-03-25)25 March 1908 Leicestershire, England
Died	17 February 1978(1978-02-17) (aged 69) Oxford, England
Spouse	Joan Elizabeth Blomfield ​ ​ (after 1943)​
Children	3, including Thorlac Turville-Petre
Awards	Grand Knight's Cross of the Order of the Falcon (1963)
Academic background
Alma mater	Ampleforth College Christ Church, Oxford
Academic advisors	J. R. R. Tolkien Charles Leslie Wrenn
Influences	Björn M. Ólsen Sigurður Nordal Jan de Vries Magnus Olsen Georges Dumézil
Academic work
Discipline	Philology
Sub-discipline	Icelandic studies Old Norse studies
Institutions	University of Oxford
Main interests	Old Norse history, literature, mythology, poetry and religion
Notable works	The Heroic Age of Scandinavia (1951) Origins of Icelandic Literature (1953) Myth and Religion of the North (1964) Scaldic Poetry (1976)

Edward Oswald Gabriel Turville-Petre FBA (25 March 1908 – 17 February 1978) was an English philologist who specialized in Old Norse studies.

Born at Bosworth Hall, Leicestershire to a prominent Roman Catholic family, Turville-Petre was educated in English at the University of Oxford under the tutelage of J. R. R. Tolkien. He eventually became Professor of Ancient Icelandic Literature and Antiquities at the University of Oxford and a leading member of the Viking Society for Northern Research. He was the husband of fellow philologist Joan Turville-Petre, who was a scholar of Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse studies at Oxford. Turville-Petre was the author of numerous works on Old Norse literature and religion which have remained influential up to the present day.