[1][2] She has also written articles on Australian Aboriginal rituals and contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
She was influenced to study Old and Middle English and Old Norse by Ralph Elliott, whom the university appointed as she was starting the Honours course.
She then worked as a lecturer at St. Hilda's College and Lady Margaret Hall, and in 1968–69 visited the Arnamagnæan Institute in Copenhagen on a travelling fellowship.
[3] Clunies Ross was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Gothenburg and is a Fellow (arbetande ledamot) of the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy.
[1] She is also an Honorary Research Associate of the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge.