Say What I Am Called: The Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book & the Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition

by Dieter Bitterli

Book Overview

Perhaps the most enigmatic cultural artifacts that survive from the Anglo-Saxon period are the Old English riddle poems that were preserved in the tenth century Exeter Book manuscript. Clever, challenging, and notoriously obscure, the riddles have fascinated readers for centuries and provided crucial insight into the period. In Say What I Am Called, Dieter Bitterli takes a fresh look at the riddles by examining them in the context of earlier...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487525486
• ISBN13: 9781487525484
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher