Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson, British antiquarian.

• 1914: born Bebington, Cheshire (now in Merseyside)
• education
  • Park High School for Girls, Birkenhead
  • Newnham College, Cambridge: Firsts in English and Archeology
• 1940: Ph.D.: pagan beliefs of Scandinavia under Professor and Mrs Chadwick
• 1939-1944: Assistant Lecturer in English at the Royal Holloway College
• part-time lecturer in English at Birkbeck College
• Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
• member of the Council of the Folklore Society
• held a Caloutse Gulbenkian Research Fellowship at the Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge

still alive?

Publications

• • The Road to Hel (1943)
  • The Golden Age of Northumbria (1958)
  • The Sword in Anglo-Saxon England (1962)
  • Gods and Myths of Northern Europe (1964)
  • The Road to Hel (1943)