The Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book & the Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition
by
Dieter Bitterli
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2009
Perhaps the most enigmatic cultural artifacts that survive from the Anglo-Saxon period are the Old English riddle poems that were preserved in the tenth century Exeter Book manuscript. Clever, challenging, and notoriously obscure, the riddles have fascinated readers for centuries and provided crucial...