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patriarchal attitudes to women, lords' dominance over their servants, and humans' over animals. Thirteen, for example, have as their solution an implement, which speaks of itself through the riddle as a servant to its lord; but these sometimes also suggest the power of the servant to define the master. Riddles have also been shown as both inducing and easing anxiety, through their reinterpretation of the known world.
246:; their solutions are not given, and several end with an injunction to 'say what I am called', suggesting that they were indeed recited as verbal entertainment; yet they clearly have diverse origins. The search for answers to the riddles has been addressed at length by Patrick J. Murphy, focusing on thought patterns of the period, but there is still no unanimous agreement on some of them. 242:, which in its current, fragmentary state contains around 94 riddles (scholars debate precisely how many there are because divisions between poems are not always clear). There is speculation that there may once have been, or have been intended to be, 100 riddles in the book, since this would match the Latin collections discussed above. The riddles are all written in 297:
of Aldhelm and his Anglo-Latin successors are presented in manuscripts with their solutions as their title, and seldom close with a challenge to the reader to guess their solution. Unlike the Latin Anglo-Saxon riddles, the Old English ones tend not to rely on intellectual obscurity to make the riddle
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Riddles are an internationally widespread feature of oral literatures and scholars have not doubted that they were traditional to Old English culture. But the history of riddles as a literary genre in England seems to be rooted in an influential collection of late Antique Latin riddles, possibly from
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The Old English riddles have been much more studied than the Latin ones, but recent work has argued that the two groups need to be understood together as 'a vigorous, common tradition of Old English and Anglo-Latin enigmatography'. Much past work on the Old English riddles has focused on finding and
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and with artefacts such as the Alfred Jewel or the Brussels Cross, which endow inanimate things with first-person voices. By representing the familiar, material world from an oblique angle, many riddles from early medieval England complicate or challenge social norms such as martial masculinity,
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survive in two manuscripts, as a set of one hundred riddles. It is almost certain that Tatwine had read the riddles of Aldhelm; Frederick Tupper believed that this influence was minimal, but subsequent scholars have argued that Tatwine's riddles owed a substantial debt to those of Aldhelm. Both
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proceeded during the seventh century, Old English-speakers studied Latin and gained access to Latin literacy and literary traditions. Apparently relatively early in his career, a prominent early Christian aristocrat, scholar, abbot and bishop from Wessex, Aldhelm, composed the
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Aldhelm's most prominent themes were 'the natural world, daily life, church furniture, and the classroom. A bookish quality is evident in many of the other topics addressed, which would certainly have been outside the daily experience of Anglo-Saxon England'.
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more difficult for the reader, rather focusing on describing processes of manufacture and transformation. The reader must be observant to any double meanings or "hinge words" in order to discover the answer to the riddle.
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of ten riddles on the virtues and another of ten on the vices. These were "for the moral instruction of an unnamed female correspondent", were influenced greatly by Aldhelm, and contained many references to works of
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was a major, prestigious literary form in early medieval England, and riddles were written both in Latin and Old English verse. The pre-eminent composer of Latin riddles in early medieval England was
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Perhaps because of its use in Anglo-Saxon education, Aldhelm's collection inspired several more Anglo-Latin riddle collections. Recent scholarship suggests that nineteen riddles attributed to
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British Library, Cotton Vitellius E.xviii, made in Winchester, within a short text on secret codes, found among a collection of notes, charms, prayers, and computistical tables.
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Helen Price, 'Human and NonHuman in Anglo-Saxon and British Postwar Poetry: Reshaping Literary Ecology' (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Leeds, 2014), esp. ch. 2;
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E.g. Helen Price, 'Human and NonHuman in Anglo-Saxon and British Postwar Poetry: Reshaping Literary Ecology' (unpublished PhD thesis, University of Leeds, 2013),
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riddles, which were supplemented by a further sixty attributed to a scholar with the name Eusebius whose identity is not securely known. These
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Aldhelm's Latin riddling was also inspiring the composition of riddles in Old English as early as the eighth century: this is attested by the
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Opening of Aldhelm's riddles in the late tenth- or early eleventh-century manuscript London, British Library, Royal MA 12 c xxiii, folio 84r
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Tatwine and Eusebius composed on everyday objects and abstract concepts, including the theological, philosophical, and mythological.
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Jennifer Neville, 'The Unexpected Treasure of the "Implement Trope": Hierarchical Relationships in the Old English Riddles',
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Words, Words, Words: Philology and Beyond: Festschrift for Andreas Fischer on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday
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Klein, Thomas (2019). "Pater Occultus: The Latin Bern Riddles and Their Place in Early Medieval Riddling".
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Tatuini omnia opera, Variae collectiones aenigmatum merovingicae aetatis, Anonymus de dubiis nominibus
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Tatuini omnia opera, Variae collectiones aenigmatum merovingicae aetatis, Anonymus de dubiis nominibus
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Tatuini omnia opera, Variae collectiones aenigmatum merovingicae aetatis, Anonymus de dubiis nominibus
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Say what I am Called: The Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book and the Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition
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debating solutions, but a new wave of work has started using riddles as a way to study Anglo-Saxon
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Riddling the voices of others: The Old English Exeter Book riddles and a pedagogy of the anonymous
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There are also two Old English prose riddles, surviving on folio 16v in the mid-eleventh-century
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However, the vast majority of Old English riddles are attested in the later tenth-century
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The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry: An Edition of Exeter Dean and Chapter MS 3501
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script which some scholars have viewed as a riddle (with the proposed solution 'whale').
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Dieter Bitterli, 'Two Old English Prose Riddles of the Eleventh Century', in
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are also thought to have been composed in Anglo-Saxon England.
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In enigmate : the history of a riddle, 400-1500
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Index


Anglo-Saxon literature
riddle
Aldhelm
Exeter Book
Old English poems
Symphosius
Symphosius
Epistola ad Acircium § The Enigmata
conversion of England to Christianity
Epistola ad Acircium
Symphosius
Bern Riddles
Byzantine literary riddling
Liber epigrammatum
Riddles of Tatwine
Riddles of Eusebius
Bede
Liber epigrammatum
Tatwine
acrostic
riddles of Tatwine
riddles of Eusebius
Saint Boniface
a sequence
Vergil
Aeneid
Georgics
Eclogues
Lorsch riddles

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