The Old English Riddles of the 'Exeter Book'

Craig Williamson

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9780807898093, 9780807812723
• eBook ISBN: 9781469610290
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: English Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

The Exeter Book, a late tenth-century manuscript of early Old English poetry, is an anthology of religious homiletic verse, elegiac poetry, and ninety-one lyric riddles. The riddles are of particular interest to students of Old English poetry and Anglo-Saxon culture, to archeologists, anthropologists, and folklorists. This volume will supersede all earlier editions of the riddles as the text contains many new manuscript readings, and a summary is given of the scholarship on each riddle.

Originally published in 1977.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Appendixes to the Introduction
• Plates
• Text
• Notes and Commentary
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index of Solutions