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Old English word puzzles
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
Exeter_Book_Riddles
Part of Anglo-Saxon literature
of Latin riddles in early medieval England was Aldhelm (d. 709), while the Old English verse riddles found in the tenth-century Exeter Book include some
Anglo-Saxon_riddles
Old English riddle
Exeter Book Riddle 47 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records) is one of the most famous of the Old English riddles found in the
Exeter_Book_Riddle_47
Old English riddle
Exeter Book Riddle 25 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records) is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century
Exeter_Book_Riddle_25
Old English riddle
Exeter Book Riddle 44 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records) is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century
Exeter_Book_Riddle_44
10th-century book of Anglo-Saxon poetry
riddles, numerous smaller heroic poems, and a quantity of elegiac verse. The moving elegies and enigmatic riddles are the most famous of the Exeter Book
Exeter_Book
Old English riddle
Exeter Book Riddles 68 and 69 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records) are two (or arguably one) of the Old English riddles found
Exeter_Book_Riddles_68-69
Old English riddle
Exeter Book Riddle 5 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records) is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century
Exeter_Book_Riddle_5
Old English riddle
Exeter Book Riddle 9 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records) is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century
Exeter_Book_Riddle_9
Old English riddle
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
Exeter_Book_Riddle_45
Old English riddle
Exeter Book Riddle 26 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records) is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century
Exeter_Book_Riddle_26
Old English riddle
Exeter Book Riddle 33 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records) is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century
Exeter_Book_Riddle_33
Old English riddle
Exeter Book Riddle 61 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records) is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century
Exeter_Book_Riddle_61
Old English riddle
Exeter Book Riddle 12 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records) is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century
Exeter_Book_Riddle_12
Statement with a double meaning used as a puzzle
verse. The riddles in this book vary in subject matter from ribald innuendo to theological sophistication. Three, Exeter Book Riddle 35 and Riddles 40/66,
Riddle
Exeter Book Riddle 65 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records) is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century
Exeter_Book_Riddle_65
Old English riddle
Exeter Book Riddle 7 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records) is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century
Exeter_Book_Riddle_7
Old English riddle
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
Exeter_Book_Riddle_27
Old English riddle
Exeter Book Riddle 83 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records) is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century
Exeter_Book_Riddle_83
Old English riddle
Exeter Book Riddle 24 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records) is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century
Exeter_Book_Riddle_24
Old English riddle
Exeter Book Riddle 51 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records) is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century
Exeter_Book_Riddle_51
Medieval Latin riddle
ten-line Riddle 66, and adapted even further as the now largely lost, presently six-line Riddle 94, both also found in the Exeter Book. These riddles stand
De_creatura
Old English riddle
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
Exeter_Book_Riddle_30
Old English riddle
Exeter Book Riddle 60 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records) is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century
Exeter_Book_Riddle_60
Old English riddle
The "Leiden Riddle" is an Old English riddle (which also survives in a similar form in the Exeter Book known as Exeter Book Riddle 33 or 35). It is noteworthy
Leiden_Riddle
Wording that is devised to be understood in two ways
found in the book, there are also numerous riddles. Answers to the riddles were not included in the book, but have been found by scholars over the years
Double_entendre
Sources of ancient myth
the myth of the barnacle goose, is in the eleventh century Exeter Book of Riddles. The riddle NUMBER 10, is asked as follows: Neb wæs min on nearwe, ond
Barnacle_goose_myth
Literature of Anglo-Saxon England
riddles there are, with some agreeing 94 riddles, and others proposing closer to 100 riddles in the book. Most scholars believe that the Exeter Book was
Old_English_literature
Archbishop of Canterbury from 731 to 734, Christian saint
Salvador-Bello. Isidorean Perceptions of Order. p. 222. Tupper Riddles of the Exeter Book p. xxxiv Lapidge Aldhelm: The Poetic Works p. 66 Orchard Poetic
Tatwine
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
Writing-riddle
The Lorsch riddles, also known as the Aenigmata Anglica, are a collection of twelve hexametrical, early medieval Latin riddles that were anonymously written
Lorsch_riddles
English translator, children's author and poet (born 1941)
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
Kevin_Crossley-Holland
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
Epistola_ad_Acircium
representing approximately one third of total inscriptions, consistent with Exeter Book riddles 48 and 59, however this is lower than the average across all media
Rings in early Germanic cultures
Rings_in_early_Germanic_cultures
Two anonymous Old English poems
Soul and Body I, which is found in the Vercelli Book, and Soul and Body II, found in the Exeter Book. It is one of the oldest poems to have survived in
Soul_and_Body
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
History_of_books
Anonymous Old English poem
together as being all the elegies found in the Exeter Book. Niles also states the 50 riddles in the Exeter Book resembles the first person speaker, just like
The_Husband's_Message
Old English poem, probably 8th–9th century
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
The_Ruin
The Enigmata Eusebii (riddles of Eusebius) are a collection of sixty Latin, hexametrical riddles composed in early medieval England, probably in the eighth
Enigmata_Eusebii
Old English poem
adjacency to the riddles has continued to inform commentary and interpretation. Proposals regarding its heritage prior to inscription in the Exeter codex are
Wulf_and_Eadwacer
the Exeter Book. Critical discussion has focused on the genre of the poem. It is preserved in a collection which also contains the Exeter Book Riddles, but
Pharaoh_(Old_English_poem)
English sculptor
made of stainless steel and is 6.5 metres (21 ft) high. Riddles from the 10th-century Exeter Book, translated from Old English by Kevin Crossley-Holland
Michael_Fairfax
British artist (born 1952)
The New Book of Exeter Riddles (Lawrence Sail and Kevin Crossley-Holland (1999) Spot the Book Title (2000) Pie Aaaaaarrgh Squared (2001) Book of Maritime
Simon_Drew
British poet and writer
He has edited several prominent anthologies, including The New Exeter Book of Riddles (1999) with Kevin Crossley-Holland, and First and Always: Poems
Lawrence_Sail
England. The Exeter Book of Riddles, a collection of manuscripts from across England written in the Old English language contains a riddle where the answer
English_bagpipes
The Bern Riddles, also known as Aenigmata Bernensia, Aenigmata Hexasticha or Riddles of Tullius, are a collection of 64 rhythmic Latin riddles, named after
Bern_Riddles
English cleric and naturalist
1956) The Whistler, Bird of Omen, (Modern Languages Notes, 1950) Exeter Book Riddle 57 (55) - a double solution? (Anglo-Saxon England, 1996) Notes on
Charles_Swainson_(naturalist)
British translator, poet, academic and broadcaster (1941–2023)
Beowulf: A Verse Translation (1973, revised 2001) Old English Riddles from the Exeter Book (1980, revised 2007) "St. Andrews faculty page". Biographical
Michael_J._Alexander
Old English poem
Complaint" is an Old English poem of 53 lines found on folio 115 of the Exeter Book and generally treated as an elegy in the manner of the German frauenlied
The_Wife's_Lament
Being, thing, or spirit
"anything"). Wiht is often used as the subject of riddles, such as riddle 86 from the Exeter Book, in which it has been interpreted as referring to a
Wight
American medieval literature professor (1921–1989)
JSTOR 43627117. Kaske, Robert E. (1967a). "A Poem of the Cross in the Exeter Book: 'Riddle 60' and 'The Husband's Message'". Traditio. XXIII. New York: Fordham
Robert_Kaske
Rätsel : (die Rätsel des Exeterbuchs), 1915 – Old English riddles: (the riddles of the Exeter Book). Thibaut - Zycha / edited by Walther Killy Dictionary
Moritz_Trautmann
Old English poem composed 658 to 680
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
Cædmon's_Hymn
Genre of poetry
whose teaching is partly Christian, partly secular". The editors group riddles, "succinct formulations of traditional wisdom", and "metrical charms" under
Wisdom_poetry
City in California, United States
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
Exeter,_California
Medieval collection of medical remedies
of the Old English word lǣċe-bōc ('book of medical prescriptions', literally Old English lǣċe 'physician' + bōc 'book'). The Leechbook's name comes from
Bald's_Leechbook
British composer
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
Paul_Keenan_(composer)
Poem in Old English about the runic alphabet
itself does not provide the names of the runes. Rather, each stanza is a riddle, to which the rune name is the solution. But the text in Hickes' 1705 publication
Old_English_rune_poem
Anglo-Saxon literary work
"The Lord's Prayer I" "Homiletic Fragment II" Riddle 30b Riddle 60 "The Husband's Message" "The Ruin" Riddles 61–95 Metrical charms "Æcerbot" "Against a
Lacnunga
Mercian saint. The two poems are presented consecutively in the important Exeter Book miscellany of Old English poetry, the fourth and fifth items in the manuscript
Guthlac_poems_A_and_B
British school master and poet (1891–1976)
third volume, The Riddles of the Exeter Book (1968), was a collection of his verse-translations from Old English, of Anglo-Saxon riddles. Sixteen of these
H._H._Abbott
Latin poem De Ave Phoenice attributed to Lactantius. It is found in the Exeter Book. The composition of The Phoenix dates from the ninth century. Although
The Phoenix (Old English poem)
The_Phoenix_(Old_English_poem)
8th-century abbot
Anglo-Latin Enigmata and the evidence of a source collection in riddles 1–40 of the Exeter Book". Viator. 43 (1): 339–374. doi:10.1484/J.VIATOR.1.102554. ISSN 0083-5897
Hwætberht
Physiologus text found in many European literatures, preserved in the Exeter Book anthology of Old English poetry. Being the first of three poems in the
The Panther (Old English poem)
The_Panther_(Old_English_poem)
Old English poem
p. 59. Fr. Paolo O. Pirlo, SHMI (1997). "St. Venerable Bede". My First Book of Saints. Sons of Holy Mary Immaculate - Quality Catholic Publications.
Bede's_Death_Song
Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems. Columbia UP. p. 35. ISBN 9780231087704. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) Jayatilaka, Rohini (2010). "Old English
Capture_of_the_Five_Boroughs
Old English poem
which is known as Genesis A. Both works are narratives based on the biblical Book of Genesis, with Genesis B integrating episodes missing in Genesis A. Genesis
Genesis_B
Curative Anglo-Saxon charms
Anglo-Saxon Period: Inscriptions on Lead Sheet". Anglo-Saxon Micro-Texts. Anglia Book Series. Vol. 67. pp. 29–59. doi:10.1515/9783110630961-003. ISBN 978-3-11-063096-1
Against_a_dwarf
Old English alliterative poem
allusions, repetition, verbal parallels, ambiguity and wordplay (as in the Riddles), and the language of heroic poetry and elegy. Some scholars have argued
The_Dream_of_the_Rood
Old English poem paraphrasing Genesis
an Old English poetic adaptation of about the first half of the biblical book of Genesis. The poem is fused with a passage known today as Genesis B, translated
Genesis_A
Portuguese poet, writer, and philosopher (1888–1935)
Chris Daniels, Exeter, UK: Shearsman Books, 2007, ISBN 978-1-905700-24-0, retrieved 28 July 2010 Lisbon: What the Tourist Should See, Exeter, UK: Shearsman
Fernando_Pessoa
English novelist (1907–1989)
irresolution. She did not want to put her readers' minds at rest. She wanted her riddles to persist. She wanted the novels to continue to haunt us beyond their
Daphne_du_Maurier
American poet
Virgil; with a Translation into English Verse and a collection of Latin riddles in 1807 and Hubert and Ellen, a volume of poems, in 1812. At the Boston
Lucius_Manlius_Sargent
Series of fantasy novels by J. K. Rowling
Claris. Arden and Lorenz noted that Rowling graduated from the University of Exeter in 1986 with a degree in French literature and spent a year living in France
Harry_Potter
Gruffydd ap Rhydderch, Rhys ap Rhydderch and Gruffydd ap Llywelyn. Exeter Book of poetic riddles completed. 1048 Last Viking raid on England; unsuccessful raiders
1040s_in_England
Old English poet
one time plausible to believe that Cynewulf was author of the Riddles of the Exeter Book, the Phoenix, the Andreas, and the Guthlac; even famous unassigned
Cynewulf
Allusional device that uses pictures to represent words or parts of words
final round of ITV game show Riddiculous is a 'Riddle Run' where finalists must clear a series of rebus riddles to earn their accumulated prize money. United
Rebus
only specifically identifiable book, aside from the generic book - or possibly Bible - of Riddle 24, that 'speaks' to us from the Anglo-Saxon period, albeit
Thureth
Traditional song or poem for children
rhymes seem to have come from a variety of sources, including traditional riddles, proverbs, ballads, lines of Mummers' plays, drinking songs, historical
Nursery_rhyme
Medieval English legend
maintains that it "certainly suggests plausible answers to many of the riddles of the Woolpit mystery". However, he concludes that "the theory of displaced
Green_children_of_Woolpit
Pseudoscientific claims of past alien contact
Thomas Atkins (book, The Fire Came By: The Riddle of the Great Siberian Explosion) 1977: John Philip Cohane (book, Paradox: The Case for the Extraterrestrial
Ancient_astronauts
English author and illustrator (born 1966)
(2013), No. 4 from Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts series "The Exeter Riddles" (2013) Buster Bayliss series: Night of the Living Veg (2002) The Big
Philip_Reeve
Traditional saying that reveals a thought truth
communities that combine proverbs and riddles in some sayings, leading some scholars to create the label "proverb riddles". Another similar construction is
Proverb
Early medieval cultural group in Britain
poetry (a codex is a book in modern format, as opposed to a scroll): the Junius Manuscript, the Vercelli Book, the Exeter Book, and the Nowell Codex
Anglo-Saxons
British television detective series (1987–2000)
"The Riddle of the Third Mile", the book on which "The Last Enemy" was based) are both fictional Oxford colleges. The real Brasenose College and Exeter College
Inspector_Morse_(TV_series)
Anglo-Saxon missionary and saint (died 754)
Ars Grammatica, besides a treatise on verse and some Aldhelm-inspired riddles. While little is known about Nursling outside Boniface's vitae, it seems
Saint_Boniface
Poem by J. R. R. Tolkien
Whale", where the monster appears under the name Fastitocalon, in the Exeter Book, folio 96b-97b. By etymology, the name "Fastitocalon" is a corruption
Fastitocalon_(poem)
English Anglican bishop (1692–1752)
of Christianity likely. Butler argued that "because nature is a mess of riddles, we cannot expect revelation to be any clearer". Today, Butler's Analogy
Joseph_Butler
English poem
"The Lord's Prayer I" "Homiletic Fragment II" Riddle 30b Riddle 60 "The Husband's Message" "The Ruin" Riddles 61–95 Metrical charms "Æcerbot" "Against a
The_Death_of_Alfred
Chilean and Argentine coniferous tree
working for Veitch Nurseries, which is based in Exeter, England. Chris Page, a University of Exeter botanist working at Camborne School of Mines (CSM)
Araucaria_araucana
Emperor of Russia from 1894 to 1917
Archive. King 2006, p. 326. "The Czar and Princess Alix. Another Manifesto". Exeter and Plymouth Gazette. 5 November 1894. Retrieved 11 March 2016 – via British
Nicholas_II
British academic (born 1964)
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
Andy_Orchard
"Armillary – Exeter Quay" Exeter Memories. Retrieved 29 March 2024. "Orcombe Point Geo Needle" Art UK. Retrieved 3 March 2024. "Exeter Riddle" Art UK. Retrieved
List_of_public_art_in_Devon
Esoteric beliefs in the Eastern world
Vedic riddles was also professionally held by Brahmin priests, as initiates of the rituals of esoteric secrets. Public riddle rituals or riddle competitions
Eastern_esotericism
Symbols used in the writing system of early Frisians and Anglo-Saxon peoples
of the Latin alphabet. Additionally, in texts such as Beowulf and The Exeter Book, Anglo-Saxon runes were sometimes used as ideographic runes alongside
Anglo-Saxon_runes
June 12, 1985 – Edmund Perry, a returning graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, is shot to death in Harlem by undercover officer
Crime_in_New_York_City
Marvel Studios film
Kent by the River Thames. Also in January 2016, filming took place at Exeter College, Oxford. The next month, Feige revealed that the film originally
Doctor_Strange_(2016_film)
228–238. Beowulf, 1069–1159 Murphy, Patrick J. (2011). Unriddling the Exeter Riddles. Penn State University Press. "Against the Water-Elf-Disease". Exchanges:
Tolkien's_poetry
November 1592) "A bishop ought to die on his legs." — John Woolton, Bishop of Exeter (13 March 1594) "Lord, into Thy hands I commend my spirit." — Torquato Tasso
List_of_last_words
1984 Indian military operation
(2013). Federal Solutions to Ethnic Problems: Accommodating Diversity. Exeter studies in ethno politics. Routledge. p. 182. ISBN 978-0-415-78161-9. Retrieved
Operation_Blue_Star
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EXETER BOOK-RIDDLES
EXETER BOOK-RIDDLES
Boy/Male
Australian, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Polish
A Rock; Form of Peter; Stone
Girl/Female
Australian, French, Greek
Earth-lover; Demeter is the Mythological Greek Goddess of Corn and Harvest
Female
Turkish
 Turkish name YETER means "enough; sufficient." Compare with another form of Yeter.
Surname or Lastname
German
German : nickname for a man with some fancied resemblance to a he-goat, Middle High German boc, or a habitational name from a house distinguished by the sign of a goat.Altered spelling of German Böck (see Boeck) or Bach.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Bock ‘he-goat’.English : variant of Buck.
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, Chinese, English
A Small Stream; Near the Stream or Brook; From the Stream Near the Hollow; From the Western Stream
Male
English
 English surname transferred to unisex forename use, from Old English broc, BROOK means "brook, stream."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of boots, from Middle English, Old French bote (of unknown origin).Dutch and North German : metonymic occupational name for a boatman, from Dutch boot ‘boat’.
Girl/Female
American, Anglo, Australian, British, English
Born at Easter; Goddess of the Dawn; Easter Time
Female
Scandinavian
Scandinavian form of Persian Esther, ESTER means "star."
Female
Hungarian
Hungarian form of Persian Esther, ESZTER means "star."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a brook or stream, from Middle Englisk brook, Old English brÅc ‘brook’, ‘stream’.North German and Dutch : topographic name for someone who lived by a water meadow or marsh, from Low German brook, Dutch broek (cognate with German Bruch and Old English brÅc; see 1).Americanized spelling of German and Jewish Bruck or German Bruch.
Surname or Lastname
English (Somerset)
English (Somerset) : habitational name from Look in Puncknowle, Dorset, named in Old English with lūce ‘enclosure’.English : possibly a variant of Luck 3.Northern English and Scottish : from a vernacular pet form of Lucas.Dutch (van Look) : topographic name from look ‘enclosure’ or habitational name from a place named with this word.Thomas Look (b. c. 1622) was in Lynn, MA, by 1646. His son, also called Thomas (b. 1646), moved to Martha’s Vineyard about 1670.
Male
English
English unisex name derived from the holiday name "Easter," which is related to Old English Eosturmónaþ/Eastermónaþ, EASTER means "April."
Boy/Male
English
Cook.
Boy/Male
Shakespearean
King Henry V' and 'Henry VI, Part 1' and 'King Henry the Sixth, Part III' Duke of Exeter, uncle...
Girl/Female
Greek
Earth-lover. Demeter is the mythological Greek goddess of corn and harvest. She withdraws for the...
Surname or Lastname
Americanized spelling of German Buche.English
Americanized spelling of German Buche.English : see Book.
Female
Greek
(ΔημήτηÏ) Greek myth name of a goddess of agriculture, derived from Doric Da-mater, DEMETER means "earth mother." Compare with masculine Demeter.
Female
Hebrew
(×ֶסְתֵּר) Hebrew form of Persian Esther, ECTER means "star."Â
Male
Hungarian
Hungarian form of Latin Demetrius, DEMETER means "loves the earth" or "follower of Demeter."Â
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