Paul Bibire is an author and former lecturer at the University of St Andrews in Scotland and the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge. His area is Anglo Saxon and Old Norse and he has written many articles on these and related subjects. Bibire is also a keen enthusiast of the author J. R. R. Tolkien whom he credits as the motivation for his academic career.
He co-edited with Gareth Williams a book entitled 'Sagas, Saints and Settlements' from a 1996 interdisciplinary symposium at the University of St Andrews, exploring the history, culture, and literature of the Viking Age and medieval Iceland and Scandinavia. ('Sagas, Saints and Sacrifice' is the same book under a previous title.)