Directory of Exeter Book Riddles Resources

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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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• Anglo-Saxon Book Riddles

  http://www.thing.net/~grist/ld/young/ky-bkrid.htm
  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.

• Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book

  http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/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

  http://www.technozen.com/exeter/
  Modern English translations of all the riddles together with answers. At the Technozen site.

• Exeter Book Riddles

  http://anglosaxonpoetry.camden.rutgers.edu/exeter-book-riddles/
  Modern English translations of all the riddles by Aaron Hostetter.

• Five Old English Riddles

  http://www.lightspill.com/poetry/oe/oeriddles.html
  Jonathan Glenn's modern English translation of Riddles 14, 16, 26, 47, and 60. Includes solutions.

• Introduction to the Exeter Book Riddles

  http://www2.kenyon.edu/AngloSaxonRiddles/feast.htm
  Craig Williamson's introduction provides extensive background information organized into eight topical divisions.

• Old English Riddles

  http://faculty.virginia.edu/OldEnglish/Guide.Readings/Riddles.html
  Sound recordings and Old English texts of Riddles 46, 47, 85, 27, and 74.

• Old English Riddles

  http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/english/oldenglish/
  Old English texts of Riddles 45, 76, 25, 23, and 27. Includes Modern English translations by Craig Williamson, textual notes, and commentaries.

• Riddle 10

  http://people.ucalgary.ca/~mmcgilli/OEReader/Rid10fram.html
  Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.

• Riddle 12

  http://people.ucalgary.ca/~mmcgilli/OEReader/Rid12fram.html
  Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.

• Riddle 14

  http://www.brindinpress.com/porodri1.htm
  Old English text with parallel modern English translation by Louis Rodrigues.

• Riddle 2

  http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/engl403/twoframe.html
  Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.

• Riddle 2

  http://www.rado.sk/old_english/texts/Riddle.html
  Modern English translation by Charles W. Kennedy.

• Riddle 25

  http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/engl403/25frame.html
  Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.

• Riddle 26

  http://homepages.ucalgary.ca/~mmcgilli/OEPoetry/Rid26fram.html
  Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.

• Riddle 26

  http://www.brindinpress.com/porodri2.htm
  Old English text with parallel modern English translation by Louis Rodrigues.

• Riddle 31

  http://people.ucalgary.ca/~mmcgilli/OEReader/Rid31fram.html
  Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.

• Riddle 44

  http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/engl403/44frame.html
  Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.

• Riddle 45

  http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/engl403/45frame.html
  Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.

• Riddle 46

  http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/engl403/46frame.html
  Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.

• Riddle 47

  http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/engl403/47frame.html
  Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.

• Riddle 55

  http://www.brindinpress.com/porodri3.htm
  Old English text with modern English translation by Louis Rodrigues.

• Riddle 80

  http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/engl403/80frame.html
  Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.

• Riddle 9

  http://people.ucalgary.ca/~mmcgilli/OEReader/Rid9fram.html
  Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.

• Riddle Ages

  http://theriddleages.wordpress.com/riddles-by-number/
  Contains texts, translations, and commentaries on the riddles of the Exeter book. Work in progress.

• Riddles and Gnomic Verse

  http://www.elfinspell.com/RiddlesandGnomicVerse.html
  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.

• Riddles from the Exeter Book

  http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31172/31172-h/31172-h.htm#c07
  Modern English translations by Stith Thompson and Cosette Faust of Riddles 1-3, 5, 7-8, 14-15, 23, 26, 45, 47, and 60.

• Riddles of the Exeter Book

  http://www2.kenyon.edu/AngloSaxonRiddles/texts.htm
  The Old English texts of all the riddles with facing modern English translations by Craig Williamson.

• Selection of Riddles

  http://www.oldenglishaerobics.net/riddles.html
  Old English texts of Riddles 5, 8, 29, 30a, 35, and 46. Each word in each text is linked to a modern English definition.

 

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