Ida Lilian Gordon (born Sandal Magna 14 November 1907, died Rosemarkie 26 September 2002)[1] was a British academic, specialising in Medieval English and Old Norse.
Ida took her BA in English at Leeds University from 1925–28, and completed her PhD there in 1930: 'A typographical study of the sagas of the Vestfirðir: Gull-Þórissaga, Gíslasaga, Hávarðarsaga, Fóstbrœðrasaga and of their traditions'.
[2] In 1930,[3] she married E. V. Gordon, Leeds's Professor of English Language, with whom she had four children (the eldest of whom, Bridget Mackenzie, went on to lecture in Old Norse at Glasgow University).
[4] J. R. R. Tolkien composed the couple a long Old English praise-poem in the Old Norse drottkvætt-metre, entitled Brýdleop, as a wedding present.
[7] Mackenzie passed Ida and Eric Gordon's books to St Andrews University Library.