[4] Eleanor Barraclough studied at the University of Cambridge, in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, where she earned an MA (Cantab), an MPhil, and a PhD.
[9] She held an AHRC Leadership Grant from 2020–2024,[10] for a multidisciplinary study of forests in early northern Germanic cultures.
Since then, she has presented many documentaries on BBC Radio 3 and 4, for series such as Costing the Earth, On Your Farm, Sunday Feature and Open Country.
When she appeared as a guest on Radio 3’s Private Passions, her music choices included ‘Rotlaust tre fell’ by Wardruna.
[19] Thanks to her BBC documentaries, she has jammed with Viking musicians,[20] dunked herself in a frozen lake in search of immortality,[21] and been knighted with a walrus penis bone in the Arctic.