Anglo Saxon Riddles Exeter Book. In fact, to get started, i read some of these riddles with my students. Clever, challenging, and notoriously obscure, the riddles have fascinated readers for centuries and provided crucial insight into the period.
Use the buttons on the right to navigate to each set of riddles. They are often grouped together even though riddle 3 is very long. Underneath it is hairy do to the roots.
Use the buttons on the right to navigate to each set of riddles.
The old english riddles of the exeter book (chapel hill: In many cases, answers are just provisional, and still the subject of some discussion. Ranging from natural phenomena (such as icebergs and storms at sea) to animal and bird life, from the christian concept of the creation to prosaic domestic objects (such as a rake and a pair of bellows), and from weaponry to the peaceful pursuits of music and writing, they are. As bruce mitchell and fred c.