Hilda Ellis Davidson - Publications

Publications

• (1940) Eschatology and Manticism in Old Norse Literature. (Doctoral dissertation). University of Cambridge.
• (1941) "Fostering by Giants in Old Norse Sagas", Med. Aev. 10: 70-85.
• (1942) "Sigurd in the Art of the Viking Age", Antiquity 16: 216-36.
• (1943) The Road to Hel: A Study of the Conception of the Dead in Old Norse Literature, Cambridge University Press, "originally part of a thesis accepted in 1940 for the degree of Ph.D. in the University of Cambridge."
• (1950) "The Hill of the Dragon" (Anglo-Saxon Burial Mounds), Folklore 61.
• (1950) "Gods and Heroes in Stone" In C. Fox and B. Dickens (eds.), The Early Cultures of North-West Europe (H.M. Chadwick Memorial Studies), 123-9, London.
• (1958) The Golden Age of Northumbria, Longmans, .
• (1958) "Weland the Smith," Folklore 69: 145-59.
• (1960) "The Sword at the Wedding" Folklore 71, 1-18.
• (1962) The Sword in Anglo-Saxon England, Boydell Press, Woodbridge.
• (1963) "Folklore and Man's Past", Folklore, 74: 527-44, London.
• (1964) Book Review: Myth and Religion of the North by E. O. G. Turville-Petre. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson (History of Religion), 1964. Antiquity 38: 309-310.
• (1964) Gods and Myths of Northern Europe, Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth. (later re-published as Gods and Myths of the Viking Age, Bell Publishing Company, 1980).
• (1965) "The Finglesham Man", Sonia Chadwick Hawkes, H.R.E Davidson and C. Hawkes, Antiquity, 39: 17-32.
• (1965) "Thor's Hammer", Folklore 76: 1-15.
• (1965) "The Significance of the Man in the Horned Helmet", Antiquity 39: 23-7.
• (1967) Pagan Scandinavia, (Ancient Peoples and Places 58) London.
• (1967) "The Anglo-Saxon Burial at Coombe, Kent", Medieval Archeology 11: 1-41 (by H.E. Davidson and L. Webster).
• (1969) Scandinavian Mythology, Paul Hamlyn, London.
• (1969) The Chariot of the Sun and Other Rites and Symbols of the Northern Bronze Age, by Peter Gelling and H.E. Davidson, Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, New York.
• (1969) "The Smith and the Goddess", Frühmittelalterliche Studiern (University of Münster) 3: 216-26.
• (1971) Beowulf and its Analogues, by George Norman Garmonsway, Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson, and Jacqueline Simpson; E. P. Dutton.
• (1972) "The Battle God of the Vikings", (G.N. Garmonsway Memorial Lecture, University of York, Medieval Monographs I, York.
• (1973) "Hostile Magic in the Icelandic Sagas", The Witch Figure, ed. V. Newall (london) 20-41.
• (1974) "Folklore and History", Folklore 85.
• (1975) "Scandinavian Cosmology" in C. Blacker and M. Loewe's Ancient Cosmologies, 172-97, London.
• (1975) "Folklore and Literature", Folklore 86.
• (1976) The Viking Road to Byzantium, Allen and Unwin, London.
• (1978) Patterns of Folklore, D.S. Brewer Ltd, Ipswich. .
• (1978) "Shape-changing in the Old Norse Sagas" in J.R. Porter's and W.H.S. Russell's Animals in Folklore, 126-42 Folklore Society, Ipswich.
• (1978) "Mithras and Wodan", Études Mithraïques 4: 99-110, Acta Iranica, Leiden.
• (1979) "Loki and Saxo's Hamlet", The Fool and the Trickster; Studies in Honor of Enid Welsford, ed. P.V.A. Williams (Cambridge) 3-17.
• (1979–80) Saxo Grammaticus, The History of the Danes, Books I-IX : Edited with Commentary by H.E. Davidson, Woodbridge: Boydell.
• (Date unknown, pre-1980) Author of the article "Hero" in Encyclopædia Britannica.
• (1980) "Wit and Eloquence in the Courts of Saxo's Early Kings", "To be published as part of the Saxo Symposium, University of Copenhagen 1979."
• (1980) "Insults and Riddles in the Edda Poems", Published in Edda, A Collection of Essays, 25-46, University of Manitoba Icelandic Series 4, 1983.
• (1981) "The Restless Dead: An Icelandic Story", in H.E. Davidson and W.M.S. Russell's (eds.) The Folklore of Ghosts, Mistletoe Series 15, London Folklore Society.
• (1981) "The Germanic World" in M. Loewe and C. Blacker's Divination and Oracles,115-41, London.
• (1984) "The Hero in Tradition and Folklore: Papers Read at a Conference of the Folklore Society Held at Dyffryn House, Cardiff, July 1982" (World Bibliographical Series), Folklore Society Library.
• (1984) "The Hero as a Fool: The Northern Hamlet", The Hero in Tradition and Folklore, (ed. H.R.E. Davidson) 30-4, (Mistletoe Books, 19, Folklore Soc.) London,
• (1988) Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: early Scandinavian and Celtic religions, Manchester University Press, Manchester.
• (1989) The Seer in Celtic and Other Traditions, ed. by Hilda Ellis Davidson, John Donald Publishers, Ltd., Edinburgh, 1989.
• (1989) "Hooded men in Celtic and Germanic Tradition" in G. Davies, Polytheistic Systems, Cosmos 5, 105-124.
• (1989) "The Training of Warriors" in S. C. Hawkes, Weapons and Warfare in Anglo-Saxon England.
• (1990) "Religious Practices of the Northern Peoples in Scandinavian Tradition", Temonos 26:23-24
• (1992) "Human Sacrifice in the Late Pagan Period of North-Western Europe" in M.O.H. Carver's The Age of Sutton Hoo: The Seventh Century in North-Western Europe, 331-40, Woodbridge.
• (1992) "Royal Graves as Religious Symbols" in W. Filmer-Sankey's Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archeology and History 5, 23-31, Oxford.
• (1993) Boundaries and Thresholds: papers from a colloquium of the Katherine Briggs Club (editor).
• (1993) The Lost Beliefs of Northern Europe, Routledge, London.
• (1993) "The Hair and the Dog", Folklore 104: 151-63 by H. E. Davidson and A. Chaudhri.
• (1993)The Seer in Celtic and other traditions'
• (1996) Katharine Briggs: Story-teller, Lutterworth Press.
• (1996) "Milk and the Northern Goddess" in S. Billington's and M. Green's The Concept of the Goddess, Routledge, New York. .
• (1998) Roles of the Northern Goddess, Routledge, London.
• (2001) "The Wild Hunt" in Supernatural Enemies, Edited by H.E. Davidson and Anna Chaudhri. Carolina Academic Press, Durham, N. C.
• (2001) Women and Tradition, Hilda Ellis Davidson and Carmen Blacker, Carolina Academic Press, Durham, N.C.
• (2003) A Companion to the Fairy Tale, Hilda Ellis Davidson and Anna Chaudhri, Boydell & Brewer Ltd.