Joan Elizabeth Turville-Petre (B Litt, MA) (10 May 1911 - 9 March 2006) was a noted academic at Oxford University, England

England

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, in the field of Anglo-Saxon, Icelandic and Scandinavian language studies.

Joan Turville-Petre (née Blomfield) was the daughter of Sam Blomfield of Colchester, Essex. In 1930 she began her studies at Somerville College, Oxford University and she maintained a lifelong connection with the college. She was a Tutor and Fellow from 1941 – 6, a Lecturer in English from 1946 – 65 and an Honorary College Research Fellow from 1965 until her death in 2006.

On 7 January 1943, Joan Turville-Petre married Gabriel Turville-Petre

Gabriel Turville-Petre

Edward Oswald Gabriel Turville-Petre F.B.A. was Professor of Ancient Icelandic Literature and Antiquities at the University of Oxford...

, a fellow Oxford academic working in the same field. J. R. R. Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College,...

 and his wife were among the guests. They had three sons: Thorlac Francis Samuel (born 6 January 1944), Merlin Oswald (born 2 July 1946) and Brendan Arthur Auberon (16 September1948 - 6 December 1981).

Joan Turville-Petre died at the age of 94. Her funeral was held at St Michael's, Aylsham

Aylsham

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 on 23 March, 2006.

Selected publications

• "Runes and the Gothic alphabet" Saga-Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research 12 (1937-45) 177–94; 209–31
• "Studies on the Ormulum
  Ormulum
  The Ormulum or Orrmulum is a twelfth-century work of biblical exegesis, written by a monk named Orm and consisting of just under 19,000 lines of early Middle English verse...
  
   MS." Journal of English and German Philology 46(1) (January 1947), 1-27
• The story of Rauð and his sons Trans. from the Icelandic by J.E. Turville-Petre. Viking Society for Northern Research. Payne Memorial Series II. (1947)
• "Hengest and Horsa" Saga-Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research 14 (1953-7) 273-90
• "Sources of the Vernacular Homily in England, Norway and Iceland" Arkiv för Nordik Filologi 75 (1960), 168-82.
• "Translations of a Lost Penitential Homily" Traditio 19 (1963) 51-78
• "The metre of Icelandic court poetry" Saga-Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research 17 (1966-69) 326–51
• "Beowulf and Grettis saga: An excursion" Saga-Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research 19 (1974-77) 347–57
• "The genealogist and history: Ari to Snorri" Saga-Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research 20 (1978-81) 7–23
• The Old English "Exodus" Text, translation and commentary by J. R. R. Tolkien
  J. R. R. Tolkien
  John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College,...
  
  ; edited by Joan Turville-Petre. Clarendon Press, Oxford (1981)
• Meulengracht Sørensen, Preben The unmanly man: concepts of sexual defamation in early northern society Trans. by Joan Turville-Petre. Odense: Odense University Press (1983)
• Jón Hnefill Aðalsteinsson A Piece of Horse Liver: Myth, Ritual, and Folklore in Old Icelandic Sources Trans. by Terry Gunnell and Joan Turville-Petre, Háskólaútgáfan Félagsvísindastofnun (1998)