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The Old English and Anglo-Latin riddle tradition /

"Riddles, wordplay, and enigmatic utterance have been at the heart of English literature for many centuries: if the crossword as a form is only a hundred years old, the principles that underlie its successful solution go back more than a millennium, when anagrams, acrostics, and a variety of wo...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Orchard, Andy (Editor, Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
English, Old (ca. 450-1100)
Latin
Language Notes:Texts in Old English or Anglo-Latin with English translations following ; introduction and commentary in English.
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021.
Series:Dumbarton Oaks medieval library ; 69.
Subjects:
Riddles, English (Old)
Riddles, Latin > England.
English poetry > Old English, ca. 450-1100.
English poetry > Old English.
Riddles, Latin.
England.
450-1100
Table of Contents:
  • The Anglo-Latin tradition: Aldhelm
  • Bede
  • Tatwine
  • Hwætberht, the Riddles of Eusebius
  • Boniface
  • Alcuin
  • The Lorsch Riddles
  • The Abingdon Riddle
  • The high-minded library
  • The Old English tradition: The Franks Casket Riddle
  • The Leiden Riddle
  • The Exeter Book Riddles
  • The Old English Rune Poem
  • The Riddles of Solomon and Saturn II
  • The Old English Prose Riddle
  • Sources and analogues of the tradition: Symphosius
  • The Bern Riddles
  • The Verses of a Certain Irishman on the Alphabet
  • The Old Icelandic Rune Poem
  • The Riddles of Gestumblindi
  • Various riddles.