She is married, with two children and ten grandchildren, and lives in Cambridge. She was President of the Folklore Society from 1973 to 1976, and General Editor of the nineteen Mistletoe Books published between 19. In 1973 she became a Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, where she was Vice-President from 1975 until 1980. She lectured in English Language and Literature at Royal Holloway College and Birkbeck College in the University of London, and was elected a Fellow of the in 1940 for a thesis on beliefs about the dead in Old Norse literature. ' PENGUIN BOOKS GODS AND MYTHS OF NORTHERN EUROPE Hilda Ellis Davidson studied Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse under the Chadwicks at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she took Firsts in English Literature and what was then known as Archaeology and Anthropology. NORTHERN EUROPE 'A mythology is the comment of one particular age or civilization on the mysteries of human existence and the human mind.
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