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The '''Viking Club''' was a club for philologists and historians specializing in Germanic and Scandinavian studies. It was founded by [[E.V. Gordon]] and [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] when the two were professors at [[University of Leeds|Leeds University]] in the 1920s. At meetings of the club students and faculty would gather to read [[Old Norse|Old Icelandic]] sagas and drink together in an informal setting. Members of the club also invented original songs and poems in [[Old English]], [[Gothic]], [[Old Norse]] and other extinct Germanic languages. A collection of these works was privately published as ''[[Songs for the Philologists]]''. | The '''Viking Club''' was a club for philologists and historians specializing in Germanic and Scandinavian studies.<ref>{{L|7}}</ref> It was founded by [[E.V. Gordon]] and [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] when the two were professors at [[University of Leeds|Leeds University]] in the 1920s. At meetings of the club students and faculty would gather to read [[Old Norse|Old Icelandic]] sagas and drink together in an informal setting. Members of the club also invented original songs and poems in [[Old English]], [[Gothic]], [[Old Norse]] and other extinct Germanic languages. A collection of these works was privately published as ''[[Songs for the Philologists]]''. | ||
Similar groups have continued at Leeds University since the time of Tolkien and Gordon. As of [[2015]] the successor of the Viking Club was known as the Old Norse Reading Group, and associated with Gordon's distant successor, Alaric Hall.<ref>[https://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/3678/collection_highlights_jrr_tolkiens_time_at_the_university_of_leeds Collection highlights JRR Tolkien's time at the University of Leeds]. Created 2015-03-19. Retrieved 2021-08-20</ref> | |||
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Latest revision as of 23:44, 19 August 2021
The Viking Club was a club for philologists and historians specializing in Germanic and Scandinavian studies.[1] It was founded by E.V. Gordon and J.R.R. Tolkien when the two were professors at Leeds University in the 1920s. At meetings of the club students and faculty would gather to read Old Icelandic sagas and drink together in an informal setting. Members of the club also invented original songs and poems in Old English, Gothic, Old Norse and other extinct Germanic languages. A collection of these works was privately published as Songs for the Philologists.
Similar groups have continued at Leeds University since the time of Tolkien and Gordon. As of 2015 the successor of the Viking Club was known as the Old Norse Reading Group, and associated with Gordon's distant successor, Alaric Hall.[2]
References
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien; Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien (eds.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 7, (dated 27 June 1935)
- ↑ Collection highlights JRR Tolkien's time at the University of Leeds. Created 2015-03-19. Retrieved 2021-08-20
