The Great Book of Riddles: 250 Magnificent Riddles, Puzzles and Brain Teasers (The Great Books Series 1)

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You have an opportunity to buy a hen. In fact, you have been offered a choice between two quite remarkable animals. One of the hens produces six dozen dozen eggs per month, and the other produces a half dozen dozen. The Exeter Book contains the Old English poems known as the "elegies": " The Wanderer" (fol. 76b - fol. 78a); " The Seafarer" (fol. 81b - fol. 83a); " The Riming Poem" fol. 94a - fol. 95b); " Deor" (fol. 100a - fol. 100b), " Wulf and Eadwacer" (fol. 100b - fol. 101a); " The Wife's Lament" (fol. 115a - fol. 115b); " The Husband's Message" (fol. 123a - 123b); and " The Ruin" (fol. 123b - fol. 124b). Q: There once was a book that was only owned by the wealthy, but now everyone can have it. You can’t buy it in a bookstore or take it from a library. Q: Why did the book want to be a detective? A: So it could solve the mystery of the missing bookmark!

Jacqueline Fay, ‘Becoming an Onion: The Extra-Human Nature of Genital Difference in the Old English Riddling and Medical Traditions’, English Studies, 101 (2020), 60-78 (p. 64); doi: 10.1080/0013838X.2020.1708083.

Williamson, Craig, (2017) The Complete Old English Poems. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 9780812248470. Oven, Beehive, Falcon Cage, (Book)case, Pen and ink, Barrow, Sacrificial altar, Millpond and sluice

Book riddles leave a lasting impression while reading. They make everyone laugh and scratch their head. Sometimes they are easy as pie, and other times they might find you scratching your head. So get ready to embark on a reading adventure as you try and solve these fun book riddles.a b c d e f g h i j k l Shippey, Tom (2017). The Complete Old English Poems. Translated by Williamson, Craig. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. x-xi, 299-302. ISBN 978-0-8122-9321-0. a b c Gameson, Richard (December 1996). "The origin of the Exeter Book of Old English poetry". Anglo-Saxon England. Cambridge University Press. 25: 135–185. doi: 10.1017/S0263675100001988. ISSN 1474-0532. S2CID 162992373. The Exeter Book riddles are varied in theme, but they are all used to engage and challenge the readers mentally. By representing the familiar, material world from an oblique angle, many not only draw on but also complicate or challenge social norms such as martial masculinity, patriarchal attitudes to women, lords' dominance over their servants, and humans' over animals. [14] 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. [15] Q: I wiggled and cannot see, sometimes underground and sometimes on a tree. I really don’t want to be on a hook, and I become a person when combined with a book. I am wonderful help to women, The hope of something to come. I harm No citizen except my slayer. Rooted I stand on a high bed. I am shaggy below. Sometimes the beautiful Peasant's daughter, an eager-armed, Proud woman grabs my body, Rushes my red skin, holds me hard, Claims my head. The curly-haired Woman who catches me fast will feel Our meeting. Her eye will be wet. [16] Trans. by Craig Williamson, A Feast of Creatures: Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Songs (1982)

If you are running a race, and you overtake the person in second place, what place do you move into? Ideas for teaching and discussing Exeter Book Riddles, with links to texts and pictures of Anglo-Saxon objects. Cambridge University Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, ‘The Spoken Word’ Frald the White was disappointed to hear that I lost the challenge against Salyn Sarethi, but he thanked me for having the courage to meet the challenge. Q:A teacher is yelling, she closes the door, the window, and a book. What did she forget to close? A: Her mouth.

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Crossley-Holland, Kevin (2008). The Exeter Book Riddles. London: Enitharmon Press. ISBN 978-1-904634-46-1. Contains riddles only. Susanne Kries, ' Fela í rúnum eða í skáldskap: Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian Approaches to Riddles and Poetic Disguises', in Riddles, Knights, and Cross-dressing Saints: Essays on Medieval English, ed. by Thomas Honegger, Variations Sammlung/Collection, 5 (Bern: Peter Lang, 2004), pp. 139-64 ISBN 3-03910-392-X. There are two glasses. One contains water, and the other contains an equal quantity of wine. A teaspoon of water is removed and mixed into the glass of wine. A teaspoon of the wine-water mixture is then removed and mixed into the glass of water. Which of the mixtures is now purer? Paull F. Baum, Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1963), https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_Riddles_of_the_Exeter_Book Flood, Alison (22 June 2016). "Unesco lists Exeter Book among 'world's principal cultural artefacts' ". The Guardian . Retrieved 26 June 2016.