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The ninth-century Codex Aureus of Sankt Emmeram, the kind of lavishly decorated Gospel-book which Riddle 26 may envisage.

Exeter Book Riddle 26 (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.

The riddle is almost unanimously solved as 'gospel book'.[2][3]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Riddle Ages".
  3. ^ "Exeter Book Riddles Solutions | Old English Poetry Project | Rutgers University".

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