• Exeter Book Riddle 27 (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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    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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  • Exeter Book Riddle 30 (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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    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 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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    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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  • 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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    century, and published in the 10th century in the Exeter Book, a large collection of poems and riddles. The poem evokes the former glory of an unnamed ruined...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    HMS Achilles (on loan to the New Zealand Division) and the heavy cruiser HMS Exeter. Graf Spee had sailed into the South Atlantic in August 1939, before the...
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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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    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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    and Selected Poems. He has edited and translated the riddles included in the Anglo-Saxon Exeter Book. Crossley-Holland has written the libretti for two...
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  • Fabulous Fantoras Charles "Father Goose" Ghigna (born 1946) – Mice Are Nice, Riddle Rhymes, A Fury of Motion: Poems for Boys May Gibbs (1877–1969) – Snugglepot...
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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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  • University where he gained a First Class Honours Degree in History and at Exeter College, Oxford, where he received a doctorate for his thesis on Edward...
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  •  228–238. Beowulf, 1069–1159 Murphy, Patrick J. (2011). Unriddling the Exeter Riddles. Penn State University Press. "Against the Water-Elf-Disease". Exchanges:...
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    Andy Orchard (category Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford)
    Cambridge, where he read Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic from 1983, and Exeter College, Oxford, where he read English from 1985. He graduated in 1987 Bachelor...
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    Chicago became 'the Big Onion'. The 10th century Exeter Book, written in Old English, contains a riddle which seems to be about an onion, with sexual overtones...
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