Books By O. A. Smirnitskaia - Author

Olga A. Smirnitskaya is a Soviet and Russian linguist and translator. She earned her PhD in Philology in 1988 from Lomonosov Moscow State University where she later served as Professor in the Department of Germanic Linguistics in the Faculty of Philology from 1991 to 2020. She has published extensively in the fields of comparative historical Germanic Linguistics, runology, history of the English Language, and comparative versification, as well as significant translations of The Younger Edda, Old Icelandic sagas, and skaldic poems in Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla.