Carolyne Larrington is Fellow and Tutor in Medieval English Literature at St John’s College, Oxford, UK. Her previous books include The Women’s Companion to Mythology; The Poetic Edda; King Arthur’s Enchantresses: Morgan and her Sisters in Arthurian Tradition (I.B.Tauris 2006, paperback 2014); Magical Tales: Myth, Legend and Enchantment in Children’s books (edited with Diane Purkiss); and The Land of the Green Man: A Journey through the Supernatural Landscapes of the British Isles (I.B.Tauris, 2015).