Frederick Metcalfe

Frederick Metcalfe was an English clergyman and Scandinavian scholar, born on March 29, 1815, in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. Sources connected with his Oxford memorial record that he was educated at Oxford and became a fellow of Lincoln College.

His best-known books include The Oxonian in Norway, The Oxonian in Thelemarken, and The Oxonian in Iceland. These works present travel in nineteenth-century Scandinavia alongside folklore, sagas, and reflections on language and literature, showing how strongly he was drawn to Norse and Anglo-Saxon culture.

Published title pages describe him as "The Rev. Frederick Metcalfe, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford," which fits the picture of a writer who moved easily between academic study, religious life, and travel writing. He died in 1885.