num_pages: 112
description: Ritchie Girvan, born circa 1867 in Campbeltown, Scotland, was a graduate of the Glasgow University who was a lecturer in English Language from 1907 until 1947 &amp; Professor from 1947 to 1949. He was Dean of Faculties from 1954 to 1958 &amp; received an honorary LLD in 1950. Girvan matriculated to study at the University in 1894 &amp; graduated MA in 1899. He was a respected Anglo-Saxon grammarian whose best-known work is Beowulf &amp; the Seventh Century: Language &amp; Content (1935).
language: English
title: Beowulf and the Seventh Century: Language and Content
publisher: Methuen & Company Ltd. (London)