Exeter Book Riddle 47
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 later tenth-century Exeter Book. Its solution is 'book-worm' or 'moth'.
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Interpretation
The extensive commentary on this riddle is concisely summarised by Cavell,[2] and more fully by Foys.[3]
Editions
- Krapp, George Philip and Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie (eds), The Exeter Book, The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, 3 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1936), p. 236.
- Williamson, Craig (ed.), The Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1977).
- Muir, Bernard J. (ed.), The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry: An Edition of Exeter Dean and Chapter MS 3501, 2nd edn, 2 vols (Exeter: Exeter University Press, 2000).
References
- ↑ George Philip Krapp and Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie (eds), The Exeter Book, The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, 3 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1936), p. 205.
- ↑ M. C. Cavell, 'Commentary for Riddle 47', https://theriddleages.wordpress.com/2015/11/23/commentary-for-riddle-47/ (23 November 2015).
- ↑ Martin Foys, 'The Undoing of Exeter Book Riddle 46: "Bookmoth"', working paper at https://www.academia.edu/15399839.
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