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    Exeter Book Riddle 26 (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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  • Exeter Book Riddle 25 (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 45 (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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    made from calf hide. Exeter Book Riddle 26 describes the process of making parchment through the eyes of an animal. The riddle reads: Some enemy deprived...
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    Communications, 26–28 (Helsinki/Hamina: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1918–20), I 74–178. Frederick Tupper, Jr, "Originals and Analogues of the Exeter Book Riddles", Modern...
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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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    of Latin riddles in early medieval England was Aldhelm (d. 709), while the Old English verse riddles found in the tenth-century Exeter Book include some...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    File". nimitz.net. Archived from the original on 22 February 2017. "Exeter Book Riddles". penelope.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 1 October 2015. "Utopia – Definition...
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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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    "anything"). Wiht is often used as the subject of riddles, such as riddle 86 from the Exeter Book, in which it has been interpreted as referring to a...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Ginny was possessed by an old diary, inside which the memory of Tom Marvolo Riddle, Voldemort's younger self, resides. On Voldemort's behalf, Ginny opened...
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    found in both Northumbrian and West Saxon dialects. Bede died on Thursday, 26 May 735 (Ascension Day) on the floor of his cell, singing Glory be to the...
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  • Valley News. 26 April 2019. Retrieved 21 May 2019. "Chapel and Cathedral Services". Bishop Wordsworth's School. Retrieved 2 December 2020. Riddle, Joe (6 May...
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  • April 12, 2023. Retrieved July 25, 2024. "Three-Year-Old Mystery: Hogan Riddle May Be Answered". Stevens Point Journal. November 18, 1957. Retrieved July...
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  • one time plausible to believe that Cynewulf was author of the Riddles of the Exeter Book, the Phoenix, the Andreas, and the Guthlac; even famous unassigned...
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    Daphne du Maurier (category National Book Award winners)
    irresolution. She did not want to put her readers' minds at rest. She wanted her riddles to persist. She wanted the novels to continue to haunt us beyond their...
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