E. V. Gordon

Eric Valentine Gordon
Born(1896-02-14)14 February 1896
Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Canada
Died29 July 1938(1938-07-29) (aged 42)[1]
Manchester, England
NationalityCanadian
Education
Known forPioneering research on Old Norse
Spouse
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(after 1930)​
Children4
Scientific career
FieldsGermanic 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]

  1. ^ The Guardian (1938), p. 11.
  2. ^ 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.