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data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output 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href="/wiki/Bebington" title="Bebington">Bebington</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cheshire" title="Cheshire">Cheshire</a>, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">12 January 2006<span style="display:none">(2006-01-12)</span> (aged 91)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Dartford" title="Dartford">Dartford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kent" title="Kent">Kent</a>, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Richard Robertson Davidson </div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(after 1943)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">2</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Katharine_Briggs_Folklore_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Katharine Briggs Folklore Award">Katharine Briggs Folklore Award</a> (1988)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Academic background</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Newnham_College,_Cambridge" title="Newnham College, Cambridge">Newnham College, Cambridge</a> (<a href="/wiki/MA_(Oxon)" class="mw-redirect" title="MA (Oxon)">MA</a>, <a href="/wiki/PhD" class="mw-redirect" title="PhD">PhD</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Thesis" title="Thesis">Thesis</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Eschatology and Manticism in Old Norse Literature</i> (1940)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Academic advisors</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hector_Munro_Chadwick" title="Hector Munro Chadwick">Hector Munro Chadwick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nora_K._Chadwick" title="Nora K. Chadwick">Nora K. Chadwick</a></li></ul> </div></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Academic work</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Discipline</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Folklore_studies" title="Folklore studies">Folklore studies</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Institutions</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Folklore_Society" title="The Folklore Society">The Folklore Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucy_Cavendish_College,_Cambridge" title="Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge">Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Notable students</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jacqueline_Simpson" title="Jacqueline Simpson">Jacqueline Simpson</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Main interests</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Celtic_religion" title="Ancient Celtic religion">Ancient Celtic religion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxons" title="Anglo-Saxons">Anglo-Saxons</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_paganism" title="Anglo-Saxon paganism">Anglo-Saxon religion</a> and <a href="/wiki/Old_English_literature" title="Old English literature">Old English literature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_folklore" title="British folklore">British folklore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Germanic_paganism" title="Germanic paganism">Germanic paganism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Germanic_mythology" title="Germanic mythology">mythology</a>, <a href="/wiki/Germanic_folklore" class="mw-redirect" title="Germanic folklore">folklore</a> and <a href="/wiki/Early_Germanic_culture" title="Early Germanic culture">culture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Norse_religion" title="Old Norse religion">Old Norse religion</a>, <a href="/wiki/Norse_mythology" title="Norse mythology">mythology</a> and <a href="/wiki/Old_Norse_literature" title="Old Norse literature">literature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scandinavian_folklore" class="mw-redirect" title="Scandinavian folklore">Scandinavian folklore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viking_Age" title="Viking Age">Viking Age</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Notable works</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><i>Gods and Myths of Northern Europe</i> (1964)</li> <li><i>Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe</i> (1988)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson</b> <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Society_of_Antiquaries_of_London" class="mw-redirect" title="Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London">FSA</a></span></span> (born <b>Hilda Roderick Ellis</b>; 1 October 1914 – 12 January 2006) was an English <a href="/wiki/Folklorist" class="mw-redirect" title="Folklorist">folklorist</a>. She was a scholar at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">University of Cambridge</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Folklore_Society" title="The Folklore Society">The Folklore Society</a>, and specialized in the study of <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Celtic_religion" title="Ancient Celtic religion">Celtic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Germanic_paganism" title="Germanic paganism">Germanic</a> religion and folklore. </p><p>A graduate of <a href="/wiki/Newnham_College,_Cambridge" title="Newnham College, Cambridge">Newnham College, Cambridge</a>, Davidson was a Fellow at <a href="/wiki/Lucy_Cavendish_College,_Cambridge" title="Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge">Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge</a>, throughout much of her career. She specialized in the interdisciplinary study of <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Celtic_religion" title="Ancient Celtic religion">Celtic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_paganism" title="Anglo-Saxon paganism">Anglo-Saxon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Old_Norse_religion" title="Old Norse religion">Old Norse religion</a> and folklore, on which she was the author of numerous influential works. Davidson was a prominent member of The Folklore Society, and played an active role in the growth of <a href="/wiki/Folklore_studies" title="Folklore studies">folklore studies</a> as a scientific discipline. Throughout her career, Davidson tutored a significant number of aspiring scholars in her fields of study, and was particularly interested in encouraging gifted women to pursue scholarly careers. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hilda_Ellis_Davidson&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hilda Ellis Davidson was born in <a href="/wiki/Bebington" title="Bebington">Bebington</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cheshire" title="Cheshire">Cheshire</a>, England, on 1 October 1914, the daughter of Henry Roderick (a stationer) and Millie Cheesman Ellis.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEContemporary_Authors._18_December_2003_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEContemporary_Authors._18_December_2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Davidson received a <a href="/wiki/First_Class_Honours" class="mw-redirect" title="First Class Honours">First Class Honours</a> degree in English, archaeology and anthropology from <a href="/wiki/Newnham_College,_Cambridge" title="Newnham College, Cambridge">Newnham College, Cambridge</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimpson2006215_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESimpson2006215-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She gained both her <a href="/wiki/Master%27s_degree" title="Master's degree">M.A.</a> (1939) and <a href="/wiki/PhD" class="mw-redirect" title="PhD">PhD</a> (1940) at Newnham.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEContemporary_Authors._18_December_2003_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEContemporary_Authors._18_December_2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her PhD <a href="/wiki/Thesis" title="Thesis">thesis</a> was on <a href="/wiki/Old_Norse_religion" title="Old Norse religion">Old Norse religion</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimpson2006215_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESimpson2006215-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Davidson would eventually become proficient in many languages, including <a href="/wiki/Old_Norse" title="Old Norse">Old Norse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Norwegian_language" title="Norwegian language">Norwegian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Swedish_language" title="Swedish language">Swedish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Danish_language" title="Danish language">Danish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Icelandic_language" title="Icelandic language">Icelandic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> and <a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEContemporary_Authors._18_December_2003_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEContemporary_Authors._18_December_2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_career">Early career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hilda_Ellis_Davidson&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Davidson began her academic career as an assistant lecturer in <a href="/wiki/English_studies" title="English studies">English</a> at <a href="/wiki/Royal_Holloway,_University_of_London" title="Royal Holloway, University of London">Royal Holloway, University of London</a> (1939–1944).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEContemporary_Authors._18_December_2003_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEContemporary_Authors._18_December_2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her first book <i>The Road to Hel: A Study of the Conception of the Dead in Old Norse Literature</i> (1943), published under her maiden name Hilda Ellis, utilized archaeological evidence for the examination of <a href="/wiki/Death_in_Norse_paganism" title="Death in Norse paganism">death in Norse paganism</a>. This was a pioneering approach, as the study of <a href="/wiki/Old_English" title="Old English">Old English</a> and <a href="/wiki/Old_Norse" title="Old Norse">Old Norse</a> in British academia at the time was strictly concerned with literary and linguistic concerns. Davidson's utilization of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Old Norse religion was to become a strong characteristic of her research.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimpson2006215_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESimpson2006215-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 1945 to 1955 she was a lecturer in the <a href="/wiki/Extramural_education" class="mw-redirect" title="Extramural education">extramural</a> department at <a href="/wiki/Birkbeck,_University_of_London" title="Birkbeck, University of London">Birkbeck, University of London</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEContemporary_Authors._18_December_2003_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEContemporary_Authors._18_December_2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although encountering a significant amount of opposition to her attempt at combining archaeological and philological evidence for the study of Old Norse and wider <a href="/wiki/Germanic_paganism" title="Germanic paganism">Germanic religion</a>, Davidson continued with her research. In subsequent years, she published a number of influential works, including <i>The Sword in Anglo-Saxon England</i> (1962), <i>Gods and Myths of Northern Europe</i> (1964), <i>Pagan Scandinavia</i> (1967), and <i>Scandinavian Mythology</i> (1969).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimpson2006215–216_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESimpson2006215–216-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBillington2002XI_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBillington2002XI-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With Peter Gelling, she published <i>The Chariot of the Sun</i> (1969). During this time, Davidson contributed many papers to scholarly journals, where she often drew on her knowledge of myth, legend and folklore to interpret archaeological finds.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimpson2006215–216_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESimpson2006215–216-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She received a research award from the <a href="/wiki/Leverhulme_Trust" title="Leverhulme Trust">Leverhulme Trust</a> in 1964 for her work in the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEContemporary_Authors._18_December_2003_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEContemporary_Authors._18_December_2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Return_to_Cambridge">Return to Cambridge</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hilda_Ellis_Davidson&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Return to Cambridge"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fenris_Ledbergsstenen_20041231.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Fenris_Ledbergsstenen_20041231.jpg/220px-Fenris_Ledbergsstenen_20041231.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="575" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Fenris_Ledbergsstenen_20041231.jpg/330px-Fenris_Ledbergsstenen_20041231.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Fenris_Ledbergsstenen_20041231.jpg/440px-Fenris_Ledbergsstenen_20041231.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1067" data-file-height="2788" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Ledberg_stone" title="Ledberg stone">Ledberg stone</a> depicts an event from <a href="/wiki/Norse_mythology" title="Norse mythology">Norse mythology</a>. Davidson was well known for her usage of such archaeological evidence for the study of <a href="/wiki/Old_Norse_religion" title="Old Norse religion">Old Norse religion</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>From 1968 to 1971, Davidson was a Calouste Gulbenkian Research Fellow at <a href="/wiki/Lucy_Cavendish_College,_Cambridge" title="Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge">Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge</a>. After 1971 she was Lecturer, and after 1974 Fellow, in <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_studies" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglo-Saxon studies">Anglo-Saxon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Old_Norse_studies" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Norse studies">Norse</a> and <a href="/wiki/Celtic_studies" title="Celtic studies">Celtic</a> at Lucy Cavendish.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEContemporary_Authors._18_December_2003_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEContemporary_Authors._18_December_2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimpson2006216_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESimpson2006216-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was vice president at Lucy Cavendish from 1975 to 1980.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimpson2006216_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESimpson2006216-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was deeply involved in the expansion and modernization of Lucy Cavendish.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBillington2002XIII_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBillington2002XIII-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During this time she also published several influential works, including <i>The Viking Road to Byzantium</i> (1976) and <i>The History of the Danes: Saxo Grammaticus</i> (1979–1980).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBillington2002XI_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBillington2002XI-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At Cambridge Davidson ran the Cambridge Folklore Group, and was known as an active and lively speaker.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimpson2006216_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESimpson2006216-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Work_for_The_Folklore_Society">Work for The Folklore Society</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hilda_Ellis_Davidson&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Work for The Folklore Society"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Davidson had joined <a href="/wiki/The_Folklore_Society" title="The Folklore Society">The Folklore Society</a> in 1949, and was a member of its council (later Committee) from 1956 to 1986, subsequently becoming an honorary member. As a leading member of the Society, she played an active role in restoring the field of <a href="/wiki/Folklore_studies" title="Folklore studies">folklore studies</a> as a scientific discipline.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBillington2002XII–XIII_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBillington2002XII–XIII-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Davidson was actively involved in encouraging the modernization and democratization of the Society. Notable friends whom she worked with in this regard include <a href="/wiki/Katharine_Mary_Briggs" title="Katharine Mary Briggs">Katharine Briggs</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stewart_Sanderson" title="Stewart Sanderson">Stewart Sanderson</a>. These efforts culminated in the election of Katharine Briggs as president and <a href="/wiki/Venetia_Newall" title="Venetia Newall">Venetia Newall</a> as Secretary of the Society in 1967. In the subsequent years, Davidson was publications officer of the society, supervised the newly formed Mistletoe Books series, organized conferences, and edited or co-edited the papers that were produced as a result.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimpson2006216_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESimpson2006216-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Davidson was herself President of the Society from 1974 to 1976, during which the Society prospered.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimpson2006216_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESimpson2006216-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its constitution was rewritten, and the output of its journal, <i><a href="/wiki/Folklore_(journal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Folklore (journal)">Folklore</a></i>, significantly expanded in both volume and quality.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBillington2002XII_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBillington2002XII-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Davidson's efforts to modernize the Society are memorized in her <i>Changes in the Folklore Society, 1949–1986</i> (1987), which were published originally in <i>Folklore</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimpson2006216_5-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESimpson2006216-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDavidson1987123–130_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDavidson1987123–130-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Apart from her membership in The Folklore Society, Davidson was also a Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Society_of_Antiquaries_of_London" title="Society of Antiquaries of London">Society of Antiquaries of London</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEContemporary_Authors._18_December_2003_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEContemporary_Authors._18_December_2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_career">Later career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hilda_Ellis_Davidson&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Later career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In her later career, Davidson was particularly interested in exploring themes and beliefs common in both <a href="/wiki/Early_Celtic_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Early Celtic culture">early Celtic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Early_Germanic_culture" title="Early Germanic culture">Germanic culture</a>. Books produced as a result include <i>Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe</i> (1988), <i>Lost Beliefs of Northern Europe</i> (1993), and <i>Roles of the Northern Goddesses</i> (1998).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimpson2006216_5-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESimpson2006216-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She received the Coote Lake Medal for Folklore Research in 1984. Davidson helped endow the <a href="/wiki/Katharine_Briggs_Folklore_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Katharine Briggs Folklore Award">Katharine Briggs Folklore Award</a> in 1982, which she herself received in 1988 for her <i>Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe</i> (1988).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBillington2002XIII_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBillington2002XIII-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Davidson also dedicated herself to examining the history of folklore studies itself. In this connection, together with <a href="/wiki/Carmen_Blacker" title="Carmen Blacker">Carmen Blacker</a>, she edited <i>Women and Tradition: A Neglected Group of Folklorists</i> (2000).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimpson2006216_5-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESimpson2006216-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1987, Davidson helped found the Katharine Briggs Dining Club.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBillington2002XIII_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBillington2002XIII-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She organized many of its conferences, and edited the papers that were produced as a result, often in cooperation with Blacker and Anna Chaudhri. In 1988 she published a biography of her friend Katharine Briggs. The last of her editorial projects, <i>A Companion to the Fairy Tale</i> (2003), was conducted in cooperation with Chaudhri.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimpson2006216_5-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESimpson2006216-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hilda_Ellis_Davidson&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 27 December 1943, Davidson married Richard Robertson Davidson, a research scientist, with whom she had two children.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimpson2006216_5-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESimpson2006216-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEContemporary_Authors._18_December_2003_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEContemporary_Authors._18_December_2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Davidson was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal Party</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England">Church of England</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEContemporary_Authors._18_December_2003_1-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEContemporary_Authors._18_December_2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was actively involved in church life as a <a href="/wiki/Churchwarden" title="Churchwarden">churchwarden</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bell-ringer" title="Bell-ringer">bell-ringer</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBillington2002XIV_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBillington2002XIV-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death_and_legacy">Death and legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hilda_Ellis_Davidson&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Death and legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Davidson died on 12 January 2006. Her funeral was held in <a href="/wiki/St_Bene%27t%27s_Church" title="St Bene't's Church">St Bene't's Church</a> in Cambridge on 21 January 2006. She was survived by her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThe_Times._17_January_200668_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThe_Times._17_January_200668-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the time of her death, Davidson had for many decades been a highly distinguished scholar in Old Norse religion and mythology.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She helped extend both popular and scholarly interest in the fields of Norse, <a href="/wiki/Germanic_mythology" title="Germanic mythology">Germanic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Celtic_mythology" title="Celtic mythology">Celtic mythology</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBillington2002XI_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBillington2002XI-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She played an important role in the post-war revival of folklore studies, and in establishing the study of <a href="/wiki/British_folklore" title="British folklore">British folklore</a> as a scientific discipline.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBillington2002XII_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBillington2002XII-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Several of her works were translated into multiple languages, including Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, <a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a> and <a href="/wiki/Japanese_language" title="Japanese language">Japanese</a>. Her efforts to encourage interdisciplinary research combining archaeology, literature, folklore and history was highly important. She was a tutor of a large number of scholars in mythology and folklore, and was particularly devoted to encouraging the scholarly careers of gifted women.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Selected_works">Selected works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hilda_Ellis_Davidson&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Selected works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ul><li>(1940) <i>Eschatology and Manticism in Old Norse Literature</i>. (Doctoral dissertation). University of Cambridge.</li> <li>(1941) "Fostering by Giants in Old Norse Sagas", Med. Aev. 10: 70–85.</li> <li>(1942) "Sigurd in the Art of the Viking Age", Antiquity 16: 216–36.</li> <li>(1943) <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=aLA8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PP7">The Road to Hel: A Study of the Conception of the Dead in Old Norse Literature</a></i>, Cambridge University Press, "originally part of a thesis accepted in 1940 for the degree of PhD in the University of Cambridge."</li> <li>(1950) "The Hill of the Dragon" (Anglo-Saxon Burial Mounds), Folklore 61.</li> <li>(1950) "Gods and Heroes in Stone" In C. Fox and B. Dickens (eds.), <i>The Early Cultures of North-West Europe (H.M. Chadwick Memorial Studies)</i>, 123–9, London.</li> <li>(1958) <i>The Golden Age of Northumbria</i>, Longmans, [a volume in the "Then and There Series"].</li> <li>(1958) "Weland the Smith," Folklore 69: 145–59.</li> <li>(1960) "The Sword at the Wedding" Folklore 71, 1–18.</li> <li>(1962) <i>The Sword in Anglo-Saxon England</i>, Boydell Press, Woodbridge.</li> <li>(1963) "Folklore and Man's Past", Folklore, 74: 527–44, London.</li> <li>(1964) Book Review: Myth and Religion of the North by E. O. G. Turville-Petre. London: Weidenfeld Nicolson (History of Religion), 1964. Antiquity 38: 309–310.</li> <li>(1964) <i>Gods and Myths of Northern Europe</i>, Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth. (later re-published as <i>Gods and Myths of the Viking Age</i>, Bell Publishing Company, 1980).</li> <li>(1965) "The Finglesham Man", Sonia Chadwick Hawkes, H.R.E Davidson and C. Hawkes, Antiquity, 39: 17–32.</li> <li>(1965) "Thor's Hammer", Folklore 76: 1–15.</li> <li>(1965) "The Significance of the Man in the Horned Helmet", Antiquity 39: 23–7.</li> <li>(1967) <i>Pagan Scandinavia</i>, (Ancient Peoples and Places 58) London.</li> <li>(1967) "The Anglo-Saxon Burial at Coombe [Woodnesborough], Kent", Medieval Archeology 11: 1–41 (by H.E. Davidson and L. Webster).</li> <li>(1969) <i>Scandinavian Mythology</i>, Paul Hamlyn, London.</li> <li>(1969) <i>The Chariot of the Sun and Other Rites and Symbols of the Northern Bronze Age</i>, by Peter Gelling and H.E. Davidson, Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, New York.</li> <li>(1969) "The Smith and the Goddess", Frühmittelalterliche Studiern (University of Münster) 3: 216–26.</li> <li>(1971) <i>Beowulf and its Analogues</i>, by George Norman Garmonsway, Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson, and Jacqueline Simpson; E. P. Dutton.</li> <li>(1972) "The Battle God of the Vikings", (G.N. Garmonsway Memorial Lecture), University of York, Medieval Monographs I, York.</li> <li>(1973) "Hostile Magic in the Icelandic Sagas", The Witch Figure, ed. V. Newall (London) 20–41.</li> <li>(1974) "Folklore and History", Folklore 85.</li> <li>(1975) "Scandinavian Cosmology" in C. Blacker and M. Loewe's Ancient Cosmologies, 172–97, London.</li> <li>(1975) "Folklore and Literature", Folklore 86.</li> <li>(1976) <i>The Viking Road to Byzantium</i>, Allen and Unwin, London.</li> <li>(1978) Patterns of Folklore, D.S. Brewer Ltd, Ipswich. [Appears to reprint earlier articles such as "Thor's Hammer" and "The Sword at the Wedding" also includes an essay on "Lady Godiva"].</li> <li>(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.</li> <li>(1978) "Mithras and Wodan", Études Mithraïques 4: 99–110, Acta Iranica, Leiden.</li> <li>(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.</li> <li>(1979–80) Saxo Grammaticus, <i>The History of the Danes, Books I-IX</i> [Peter Fisher Translation]: Edited with Commentary by H.E. Davidson, Woodbridge: Boydell.</li> <li>(Date unknown, pre-1980) Author of the article "Hero" in Encyclopædia Britannica.</li> <li>(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."</li> <li>(1980) "Insults and Riddles in the Edda Poems", Published in Edda, A Collection of Essays, 25–46, University of Manitoba Icelandic Series 4, 1983.</li> <li>(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.</li> <li>(1981) "The Germanic World" in M. Loewe and C. Blacker's Divination and Oracles,115-41, London.</li> <li>(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.</li> <li>(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,</li> <li>(1988) <i>Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: early Scandinavian and Celtic religions</i>, Manchester University Press, Manchester.</li> <li>(1989) <i>The Seer in Celtic and Other Traditions</i>, ed. by Hilda Ellis Davidson, John Donald Publishers, Ltd., Edinburgh, 1989.</li> <li>(1989) "Hooded men in Celtic and Germanic Tradition" in G. Davies, Polytheistic Systems, Cosmos 5, 105–124.</li> <li>(1989) "The Training of Warriors" in S. C. Hawkes, Weapons and Warfare in Anglo-Saxon England.</li> <li>(1990) "Religious Practices of the Northern Peoples in Scandinavian Tradition", Temonos 26:23–24</li> <li>(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.</li> <li>(1992) "Royal Graves as Religious Symbols" in W. Filmer-Sankey's Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archeology and History 5, 23–31, Oxford.</li> <li>(1993) <i>Boundaries and Thresholds: papers from a colloquium of the Katharine Briggs Club</i> (editor).</li> <li>(1993) <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=sWLVZN0H224C&q=The+Lost+Beliefs+of+Northern+Europe">The Lost Beliefs of Northern Europe</a></i>, Routledge, London.</li> <li>(1993) "The Hair and the Dog", Folklore 104: 151–63 by H. E. Davidson and A. Chaudhri.</li> <li>(1993) <i>The Seer in Celtic and other traditions</i></li> <li>(1996) <i>Katharine Briggs: Story-teller</i>, Lutterworth Press.</li> <li>(1996) "Milk and the Northern Goddess" in S. Billington's and M. Green's The Concept of the Goddess, Routledge, New York. [This work is a tribute to Davidson].</li> <li>(1998) <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=9IAyyYi0OC4C&q=Roles+of+the+Northern+Goddess">Roles of the Northern Goddess</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged August 2024">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></i>, Routledge, London.</li> <li>(2001) "The Wild Hunt" in Supernatural Enemies, Edited by H.E. Davidson and Anna Chaudhri. Carolina Academic Press, Durham, N.C.</li> <li>(2001) <i>Women and Tradition</i>, Hilda Ellis Davidson and Carmen Blacker, Carolina Academic Press, Durham, N.C.</li> <li>(2003) <i>A Companion to the Fairy Tale</i>, Hilda Ellis Davidson and Anna Chaudhri, Boydell & Brewer Ltd.</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hilda_Ellis_Davidson&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Citations">Citations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hilda_Ellis_Davidson&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEContemporary_Authors._18_December_2003-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEContemporary_Authors._18_December_2003_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEContemporary_Authors._18_December_2003_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEContemporary_Authors._18_December_2003_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEContemporary_Authors._18_December_2003_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEContemporary_Authors._18_December_2003_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEContemporary_Authors._18_December_2003_1-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEContemporary_Authors._18_December_2003_1-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEContemporary_Authors._18_December_2003_1-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEContemporary_Authors._18_December_2003_1-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEContemporary_Authors._18_December_2003_1-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFContemporary_Authors._18_December_2003">Contemporary Authors. 18 December 2003</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESimpson2006215-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimpson2006215_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimpson2006215_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimpson2006215_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSimpson2006">Simpson 2006</a>, p. 215.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESimpson2006215–216-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimpson2006215–216_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimpson2006215–216_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSimpson2006">Simpson 2006</a>, pp. 215–216.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBillington2002XI-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBillington2002XI_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBillington2002XI_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBillington2002XI_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBillington2002">Billington 2002</a>, p. XI.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESimpson2006216-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimpson2006216_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimpson2006216_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimpson2006216_5-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimpson2006216_5-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimpson2006216_5-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimpson2006216_5-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimpson2006216_5-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimpson2006216_5-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimpson2006216_5-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimpson2006216_5-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSimpson2006">Simpson 2006</a>, p. 216.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBillington2002XIII-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBillington2002XIII_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBillington2002XIII_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBillington2002XIII_6-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBillington2002">Billington 2002</a>, p. XIII.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBillington2002XII–XIII-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBillington2002XII–XIII_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBillington2002">Billington 2002</a>, pp. XII–XIII.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBillington2002XII-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBillington2002XII_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBillington2002XII_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBillington2002">Billington 2002</a>, p. XII.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDavidson1987123–130-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDavidson1987123–130_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFDavidson1987">Davidson 1987</a>, pp. 123–130.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBillington2002XIV-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBillington2002XIV_10-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBillington2002">Billington 2002</a>, p. XIV.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEThe_Times._17_January_200668-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThe_Times._17_January_200668_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFThe_Times._17_January_2006">The Times. 17 January 2006</a>, p. 68.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSimpson2006">Simpson 2006</a>, p. 215. "Dr Hilda Ellis Davidson... [was] for many decades... a distinguished scholar in the field of Scandinavian mythology and religion, whose books reached a wide readership and whose enthusiasm for her subject was an inspiration to many.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLindow2002">Lindow 2002</a>, p. 339. "Hilda Ellis Davidson... has contributed greatly to the study of Norse mythology."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBillington2002">Billington 2002</a>, p. XI, XIV. "For many a young scholar Hilda has been, if not quite a goddess, then at least a fairy godmother... Hilda Ellis Davidson is the living proof that for a woman to be successful as an academic she does not have to sacrifice other aspects of her identity."</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sources">Sources</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hilda_Ellis_Davidson&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin refbegin-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 35em"> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFBillington2002" class="citation book cs1">Billington, Sandra (2002). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=oBiEAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR11">"Preface: The Life and Works of Hilda Ellis Davidson"</a>. In Billington, Sandra; <a href="/wiki/Miranda_Aldhouse-Green" title="Miranda Aldhouse-Green">Green, Miranda</a> (eds.). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=5Z6EAgAAQBAJ"><i>The Concept of the Goddess</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/Routledge" title="Routledge">Routledge</a>. pp. <span class="nowrap">XI–</span>XIV. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1134641524" title="Special:BookSources/1134641524"><bdi>1134641524</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Preface%3A+The+Life+and+Works+of+Hilda+Ellis+Davidson&rft.btitle=The+Concept+of+the+Goddess&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3EXI-%3C%2Fspan%3EXIV&rft.pub=Routledge&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=1134641524&rft.aulast=Billington&rft.aufirst=Sandra&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DoBiEAgAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPR11&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHilda+Ellis+Davidson" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDavidson1987" class="citation journal cs1">Davidson, Hilda Ellis (1987). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0015587X.1987.9716407">"Changes in the Folklore Society, 1949–1986"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Folklore_(journal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Folklore (journal)">Folklore</a></i>. <b>98</b> (2). <a href="/wiki/The_Folklore_Society" title="The Folklore Society">The Folklore Society</a>: <span class="nowrap">123–</span>130. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1080%2F0015587X.1987.9716407">10.1080/0015587X.1987.9716407</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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