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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Fascinating,
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This review is from: The Exeter Book Riddles: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) (Mass Market Paperback)
I was enthralled with this book. I had never encountered Anglo-Saxon riddles before, and they're a delight - not your stupid Elephant riddles, but elegant poems, each one describing something in a teasing way.
The book has the riddle on one page and the explanation on the next, so when I was reading them I used to make sure I didn't look ahead until I'd solved it. Sometimes I got it, sometimes I didn't. But it's more fun than a crossword puzzle. (And sometimes those ol' Anglo Saxons surprise you - wait till you get to the one about "I grow upright in a bed... hairs underneath..." I won't spoil it by telling you the answer!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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The Exeter Book,
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This review is from: The Exeter Book Riddles: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) (Mass Market Paperback)
Great book, but I just wanted to clear up a few things that most people do not know. The Exeter Books riddles were never published with the answers. Thus, the answers in this book are not necessarily what the Anglo-Saxons intended, but just accepted answers. And depending on who in the scholarly world you talk to, the numbers of riddles, and the translation of those riddles is quite different.
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The Exeter Book Riddles by Kevin Crossley-Holland (Paperback - March 2, 2009)
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