Lucy Winifred Faraday

L. Winifred Faraday (1872–1948) was a British teacher and folklorist known for her translation of the Irish epic Táin Bó Cúailnge.

Lucy Winifred Faraday was born on 8 July 1872 in Manchester. She studied at the Victoria University of Manchester (Owens College), where she held a University Fellowship and a University Scholarship. She took a First in English Language and Literature, earning her B.A. in 1897 and her M.A. in 1900. Her sister, Ethel Richmond Faraday, also studied at the University of Manchester.

She was a member of the Icelandic Society of Copenhagen, and published a number of articles on Icelandic history and folklore.

She died on 13 November 1948.

Publications "On the question of Irish influence on early Icelandic literature, illustrated from the Irish MSS. in the Bodleian Library, via the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society The Edda: I. The divine mythology of the North. (1902), via the HathiTrust The cattle-raid of Cualnge (Táin Bó Cúailnge): an old Irish prose-epic (1904), via the HathiTrust