 He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1973.Gabriel Turville-Petre was the author of numerous books and articles, and his "Origins of Icelandic Literature" (1953) and "Myth and Religion of the North" (1964) are still considered the best accounts of Icelandic literature and Norse mythology in English.Fluent in other North Germanic languages, in addition to German and several Celtic languages, Turville-Petre did pioneering research on parallels between Celtic and Germanic literature and mythology.