Paul Bibire


Paul Adrian Bibire is an author and former lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of St Andrews and the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge. His area is Anglo Saxon and Old Norse and he has written many articles on these and related subjects. Bibire is also a keen enthusiast of the author J. R. R. Tolkien whom he credits as the motivation for his academic career.
Bibire took a BA from Aberystwyth University in 1967, a B.Phil. in Old English at Oxford University in 1969.
He co-edited with Gareth Williams a book entitled 'Sagas, Saints and Settlements' from a 1996 interdisciplinary symposium at the University of St Andrews, exploring the history, culture, and literature of the Viking Age and medieval Iceland and Scandinavia.