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Eric Valentine Gordon | |
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| Born | 14 February 1896 Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Canada |
| Died | 29 July 1938 (aged 42)[1] Manchester, England |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Education | |
| Known for | Pioneering research on Old Norse |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 4 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Germanic philology |
| Institutions | |
Eric Valentine Gordon (14 February 1896 – 29 July 1938) was a Canadian philologist, known as an editor of medieval Germanic texts and a teacher of medieval Germanic languages at the University of Leeds and the University of Manchester.[2]
- ^ The Guardian (1938), p. 11.
- ^ Unless otherwise stated, information in this entry derives from Douglas A. Anderson, ' "An Industrious Little Devil": E. V. Gordon as Friend and Collaborator with Tolkien', in Tolkien the Medievalist, ed. by Jane Chance, Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture, 3 (New York: Routledge, 2003), pp. 15–25. ISBN 0-415-28944-0.