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Exeter Book Riddles
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The Exeter Book, one of the four major manuscripts containing Old English poems, includes 95 verse riddles. In these riddle the speakers describe themselves and leave the reader to guess who or what they are.
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Riddle 2
- Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.
Riddle 2
- Modern English translation by Charles W. Kennedy.
Riddle 25
- Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.
Riddle 44
- Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.
Riddle 45
- Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.
Riddle 46
- Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.
Riddle 47
- Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.
Riddle 80
- Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.
Anglo-Saxon Book Riddles
- Karl Young's modern English translation of Riddles 93, 51, 26, 60, and 47, with notes and solutions. Includes a discussion of the riddles as a literary genre and interprets their significance in Anglo-Saxon life.
Exeter Book Riddles
- Modern English translations of all the riddles together with answers. At the Technozen site.
Five Old English Riddles
- Jonathan Glenn's modern English translation of Riddles 14, 16, 26, 47, and 60. Includes solutions.
Old English Riddles
- Sound recordings and Old English texts of Riddles 46, 47, 85, 27, and 74.
Riddles of the Exeter Book
- The Old English texts of all the riddles with facing modern English translations by Craig Williamson.
Introduction to the Exeter Book Riddles
- Craig Williamson's introduction provides extensive background information organized into eight topical divisions.
Riddles and Gnomic Verse
- Modern English translations of Riddles 47, 57, 5, 10, 27, 16, and 21, with solutions. Also includes translations of Maxims II, Maxims I (excerpts), and the Fortunes of Men. Explanatory notes accompany the poems.
Old English Riddles
- Old English texts of Riddles 45, 76, 25, 23, and 27. Includes Modern English translations by Craig Williamson, textual notes, and commentaries.
Selection of Riddles
- Old English texts of Riddles 5, 8, 29, 30a, 35, and 46. Each word in each text is linked to a modern English definition.
Riddle 9
- Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.
Riddle 10
- Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.
Riddle 12
- Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.
Riddle 31
- Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.
Riddle 26
- Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.
Riddle Ages
- Contains texts, translations, and commentaries on the riddles of the Exeter book. Work in progress.
Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book
- Old English texts and facing modern English translations of all the riddles by Paull F. Baum.
Exeter Book Riddles
- Modern English translations of all the riddles by Aaron Hostetter.
Riddle 14
- Old English text with parallel modern English translation by Louis Rodrigues.
Riddle 26
- Old English text with parallel modern English translation by Louis Rodrigues.
Riddle 55
- Old English text with modern English translation by Louis Rodrigues.
Riddles from the Exeter Book
- Modern English translations by Stith Thompson and Cosette Faust of Riddles 1-3, 5, 7-8, 14-15, 23, 26, 45, 47, and 60.
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