#  Saskia Behrens 

Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures 

M.Phil (Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Studies), University of Cambridge 

M.A. (Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Studies; English), University of Aberdeen

 

 

 



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 email <sbehrens@fas.harvard.edu> 

 



 

Saskia Behrens focuses on comparative approaches to Irish literature, in particular the transmission and reception of Classical narratives in medieval Ireland, with an overarching interest in wider Indo-European cultural and linguistic transfer.



 

 

 





 

 

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