About Russell Poole Russell Poole is a professor emeritus of the Department of English at the University of Western Ontario and the managing editor of the journal Viking and Medieval Scandinavia. Books by Russell Poole Verbal Encounters Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse Studies for Roberta Frank edited by Antonina Harbus & Russell Poole Egil, the Viking Poet New Approaches to 'Egil's Saga' edited by Laurence de Looze, Jon Karl Helgason, Russell Poole & Torfi H. Tulinius Starcather Forgotten Hero of the Viking Age by (author) Russell Poole Viking Poems on War and Peace A Study in Skaldic Narrative by (author) Russell Poole