About the Author
Hector Munro Chadwick (1870-1947) was a philologist and historian, who taught Anglo-Saxon literature at the University of Cambridge. With his wife, Nora Kershaw Chadwick, he compiled The Growth of Literature (1932-1940), a multicultural survey of oral traditions and poetry. He also wrote Studies in Anglo-Saxon Institutions (1905), The Origin of the English Nation (1907), and Early Scotland (1949).
