which was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson as part of their History of Religion series. It has been described as his most ambitious and substantial work. Myth and Religion of the North provides a comprehensive overview of Old Norse religion, and cites both Norse, Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, Baltic and Germanic material. Like Dumézil, Turville-Petre was considered an expert on Germanic Antiquity. Although certainly influenced by the theories of Dumézil, Myth and Religion of the North does not accept all of Dumézil's theories. As such it contrasted with Jan de Vries' second edition of Altgermanische Religionsgeschichte (1956-1957), which fully incorporates the theories of Dumézil, including the trifunctional hypothesis. Turville-Petre was of the opinion that Old Norse religion contained many archaic features derived from earlier Indo-European and Germanic components, but also features that are of late and local character, some of which may have derived from Christian influences. Myth and Religion of the North remains a pioneering and influential work, and has been and still is considered by many scholars to be the best work available in the English language on Old Norse religion. Later career and retirement Turville-Petre was elected to a studentship at Christ Church, Oxford in 1964. With Edgar C. Polomé, he authored the article on Germanic religion and mythology for the 15th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica. Turville-Petre was visiting professor at the University of Melbourne in 1965. At Melbourne, he made significant contributions to the development of Icelandic studies in Australia, which he visited three times in the succeeding years. His trips to Australia were strongly encouraged by his friend and fellow philologist Ian Maxwell. Turville-Petre predicted that Australia would in time become the leading nation on Icelandic studies in the English-speaking world. In 1972, the Viking Society for Northern Research presented Turville-Petre with Nine Norse Studies, a selection of papers written by him between 1940 and 1962. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1973. Turville-Petre retired from Oxford as Professor Emeritus in 1975. He was succeeded as Vigfússon Reader at Oxford by Ursula Dronke. From 1975 to 1978 he was a Research Fellow at University College London. In 1976, the Viking Society for Northern Research instituted the annual Turville-Petre Prize to be awarded to a student at the University of Oxford for distinguished scholarship on "Northern Research". In his later career, Turville-Petre devoted himself particularly to the study of Old Norse poetry. He was