Exeter Book Riddle 12 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records)[1] is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century Exeter Book. Its solution is accepted to be 'ox/ox-hide' (though variations on this theme, focusing on leather objects, have been proposed). The riddle has been described as 'rather a cause celebre in the realm of Old English poetic scholarship, thanks to the combination of its apparently sensational, and salacious, subject matter with critical issues of class, sex, and gender'.[2] The riddle is also of interest because of its reference to an enslaved person, possibly ethnically British.
The real historical interest in that riddle is in the references to the "Welsh" (ie: British), their enslavement & their black hair.
Dark hair was considered a slave trait by the Anglo-Saxons.
^George Philip Krapp and Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie (eds), The Exeter Book, The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, 3 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1936), http://ota.ox.ac.uk/desc/3009 Archived 2018-12-06 at the Wayback Machine.
^Peter Robson, '“Feorran Broht”: Exeter Book Riddle 12 and the Commodification of the Exotic', in Authority and Subjugation in Writing of Medieval Wales, ed. by Ruth Kennedy and Simon Meecham-Jones (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), pp. 71-84 (p. 84).
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