Andrew Nicholas Wawn (born October 1944) is emeritus professor of Anglo-Icelandic literature at the University of Leeds and an expert on Old Norse sagas and their reception in the modern era.

[2] Following a BA at the University of Birmingham,[3] he completed his PhD there in 1969 with a thesis entitled "The Plowman's Tale: Critical Edition".

[6] Finding that 'það var skemmtilegra að lesa fornar íslenskar bókmenntir heldur en þær ensku' ('more entertaining to read Old Icelandic literature than English'), he began teaching Old Icelandic at Keele, and in September 1978 paid his first, week-long visit to the island, finding its autumn drizzle congenial to his temperament.

[5] In 1983, Wawn moved to the University of Leeds,[6] building on a heritage of Icelandic studies there dating back to the interwar teaching of J. R. R. Tolkien and E. V. Gordon, and the foundation of the Bogi Melsteð Collection there.

[11][12] Roberta Frank found that 'in its broad canvas and energetic research, its pace and wit and its learning lightly worn, Wawn's book is exemplary, a work of humane and original scholarship'.