Eiríkr or Eiríkur Magnússon (1 February 1833 – 24 January 1913) was an Icelandic scholar at the University of Cambridge, who taught Old Norse to William Morris, translated numerous Icelandic sagas into English in collaboration with him, and played an important role in the movement to study the history and literature of the Norsemen in Victorian England.
[12] Like many Icelandic scholars in Britain at the time, Eiríkr gave Icelandic lessons as a source of income; his first pupil was probably Sir Edmund Walker Head, 8th Baronet in 1863, and he taught some by post.
[14] Most famously, he taught William Morris and collaborated with him on translating a number of sagas.
Within a year of Morris beginning his studies with Eiríkr, their Story of Grettir the Strong was published (1869).
[16][17] Eiríkr defended Morris against York Powell's criticism of his archaic style.