• Exeter Book Riddle 5 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records) is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century...
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    The Exeter Book riddles are a fragmentary collection of verse riddles in Old English found in the later tenth-century anthology of Old English poetry...
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  • Exeter Book Riddle 44 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records) is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century...
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    Fragment II Riddle 28b / 30b Riddle 58 / 60 The Husband's Message The Ruin Riddles 59-91 / 61-95 Among the other texts in the Exeter Book, there are over...
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  • Exeter Book Riddle 24 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records) is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century...
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  • The "Leiden Riddle" is an Old English riddle (which also survives in a similar form in the Exeter Book known as Exeter Book Riddle 33 or 35). It is noteworthy...
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    manufacture when describing artefacts such as mead (Exeter Book Riddle 27) or a reed-pen or -pipe (Exeter Book Riddle 60). They are noted for providing perspectives...
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  • ten-line Riddle 66, and adapted even further as the now largely lost, presently six-line Riddle 94, both also found in the Exeter Book. These riddles stand...
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    writing. One of the Old English riddles of the Exeter book is a variations on the writing-riddle: Exeter Book Riddle 51. Earlier and more frequent examples...
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    15 March 2018. The Riddle of the new Exeter Statue Archived 4 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine (retrieved 19 November 2010) "Exeter becomes City of Literature"...
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    slightly later riddles of Eusebius and of Boniface. Two appear in Old English translation in the tenth-century Old English Exeter Book riddles, and Aldhelm's...
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    of the poem within the Exeter Book, where it was included as Riddle I in Benjamin Thorpe's 1842 translation of the Exeter Book. Additionally, Thorpe left...
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  • (2009-01-01). Say what I Am Called: The Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book and the Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9780802093523...
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  • 2005. It is made of stainless steel and is 6.5 metres (21 ft) high. Riddles from the 10th-century Exeter Book, translated from Old English by Kevin Crossley-Holland...
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    Exeter is a city in Tulare County, California, United States. It is situated in the San Joaquin Valley near the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. The population...
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    Dieter (2009) Say What I am Called: The Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book and the Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition (Toronto: University of Toronto Press...
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    Tatwine (redirect from Riddles of Tatwine)
    Isidorean Perceptions of Order. p. 222. Tupper, Frederick (1910). The Riddles of the Exeter Book. Boston: Ginn. pp. xxxiv. Lapidge, Michael; Rosier, James (2009)...
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    Salvador-Bello, Mercedes (2014). Isidorean Perceptions of Order: The Exeter Book Riddles and Medieval Latin Enigmata. Morgantown: West Virginia University...
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  • shelfmark MS. Junius 11. The Exeter Book is an anthology which brings together riddles and longer texts. It has been held at the Exeter Cathedral library since...
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  • Exeter Book soprano, counter-tenor, 1.1.1.0-1.1.1.0-pno/cel.hpsch/org-2 perc–string quartet Palimpsest (1992–95) Setting of riddles from The Exeter Book...
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    representation of the Cross is also present in Riddle 9 by the eighth-century Anglo-Saxon writer Tatwine. Tatwine's riddle reads: Now I appear iridescent; my form...
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    Bald's Leechbook (redirect from Leech Book)
    of the Old English word lǣċe-bōc ('book of medical prescriptions', literally Old English lǣċe 'physician' + bōc 'book'). The Leechbook's name comes from...
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    "Armillary – Exeter Quay" Exeter Memories. Retrieved 29 March 2024. "Orcombe Point Geo Needle" Art UK. Retrieved 3 March 2024. "Exeter Riddle" Art UK. Retrieved...
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    Death Song and the Leiden Riddle. With a bibliography compiled by M.J. Swanton (revised ed.). London: University of Exeter. ISBN 978-0-85989-078-6. [first...
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  • Beowulf: A Verse Translation (1973, revised 2001) Old English Riddles from the Exeter Book (1980, revised 2007) "St. Andrews faculty page". Biographical...
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    Literacy in the Late Anglo-Saxon Period: Inscriptions on Lead Sheet". Anglia Book Series. 63 (1): 29–59. doi:10.1515/9783110630961-003. S2CID 165389048. Lewis...
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    the myth of the barnacle goose, is in the eleventh century Exeter Book of Riddles. The riddle NUMBER 10, is asked as follows: To which the anticipated answer...
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  • Physiologus text found in many European literatures, preserved in the Exeter Book anthology of Old English poetry. Being the first of three poems in the...
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    Venerable Bede". My First Book of Saints. Sons of Holy Mary Immaculate - Quality Catholic Publications. p. 104. ISBN 971-91595-4-5. Colgrave & Mynors 1969...
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  • Lawrence Sail (category Writers from Exeter)
    He has edited several prominent anthologies, including The New Exeter Book of Riddles (1999) with Kevin Crossley-Holland, and First and Always: Poems...
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