The Old English Riddles of the ''Exeter Book''
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0807898090
ISBN-13
9780807898093
Edition
New
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Imprint
The University of North Carolina Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 1st, 2011
Print length
504 Pages
Weight
770 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.30 x 3.90 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: poetry & poetsLiterary studies: poetry and poets
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The Exeter Book, a late tenth-century manuscript of early Old English poetry, is an anthology of religious homiletic verse, elegiac poetry, and ninety-one lyric riddles. This volume supersedes all earlier editions of the riddles as the text contains many new manuscript readings, and a summary is given of the scholarship on each riddle.
The Exeter Book, a late tenth-century manuscript of early Old English poetry, is an anthology of religious homiletic verse, elegiac poetry, and ninety-one lyric riddles. The riddles are of particular interest to students of Old English poetry and Anglo-Saxon culture, to archeologists, anthropologists, and folklorists. This volume will supersede all earlier editions of the riddles as the text contains many new manuscript readings, and a summary is given of the scholarship on each riddle.
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