The "Leiden Riddle" is an Old English riddle (which also survives in a similar form in the Exeter Book known as Exeter Book Riddle 33 or 35). It is noteworthy for being one of the earliest attested pieces of English poetry; one of only a small number of representatives of the Northumbrian dialect of Old English; one of only a relatively small number of Old English poems to survive in multiple manuscripts; and evidence for the translation of the Latin poetry of Aldhelm into Old English.
The "LeidenRiddle" is an Old English riddle (which also survives in a similar form in the Exeter Book known as Exeter Book Riddle 33 or 35). It is noteworthy...
from the Dream of the Rood. Also in Northumbrian are the 9th-century LeidenRiddle and the mid-10th-century gloss of the Lindisfarne Gospels. The Viking...
Riddles: Enigmatic Embellishments in Early Persian Poetry (Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2010), 14–18. Elli Köngäs Maranda, "Riddles and Riddling:...
creatura is one of two of Aldhelm's riddles known to have been translated into Old English (the other being the LeidenRiddle): a fairly close but expansive...
formula: RiddleRiddles (Arabic) Wasf A. A. Seyed-Gohrab, Courtly Riddles: Enigmatic Embellishments in Early Persian Poetry (Leiden: Leiden University...
Lorica (prayer), a protective prayer in the Irish Christian monasticism LeidenRiddle, one of the Enigmata by the Anglo-Saxon poet Aldhelm This disambiguation...
RiddleRiddles (Hebrew) Riddles (Persian) Wasf A. A. Seyed-Gohrab, Courtly Riddles: Enigmatic Embellishments in Early Persian Poetry (Leiden: Leiden University...
itself does not provide the names of the runes. Rather, each stanza is a riddle, to which the rune name is the solution. But the text in Hickes' 1705 publication...
Three Northumbrian Poems: Cædmon's Hymn, Bede's Death Song and The LeidenRiddle. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts. Smith, JJ (2009). Old English: A...
"Aldhelm" "The Seasons for Fasting" Cædmon's "Hymn" "Bede's Death Song" "LeidenRiddle" "Latin-English Proverbs" Metrical Preface and Epilogue to Alfred's...
"Aldhelm" "The Seasons for Fasting" Cædmon's "Hymn" "Bede's Death Song" "LeidenRiddle" "Latin-English Proverbs" Metrical Preface and Epilogue to Alfred's...
The main Ancient Greek terms for riddle are αἴνιγμα (ainigma, plural αἰνίγματα ainigmata, deriving from αἰνίσσεσθαι 'to speak allusively or obscurely'...
"Aldhelm" "The Seasons for Fasting" Cædmon's "Hymn" "Bede's Death Song" "LeidenRiddle" "Latin-English Proverbs" Metrical Preface and Epilogue to Alfred's...
"Aldhelm" "The Seasons for Fasting" Cædmon's "Hymn" "Bede's Death Song" "LeidenRiddle" "Latin-English Proverbs" Metrical Preface and Epilogue to Alfred's...
The Lorsch riddles, also known as the Aenigmata Anglica, are a collection of twelve hexametrical, early medieval Latin riddles that were anonymously written...
"Aldhelm" "The Seasons for Fasting" Cædmon's "Hymn" "Bede's Death Song" "LeidenRiddle" "Latin-English Proverbs" Metrical Preface and Epilogue to Alfred's...
"Aldhelm" "The Seasons for Fasting" Cædmon's "Hymn" "Bede's Death Song" "LeidenRiddle" "Latin-English Proverbs" Metrical Preface and Epilogue to Alfred's...
"Aldhelm" "The Seasons for Fasting" Cædmon's "Hymn" "Bede's Death Song" "LeidenRiddle" "Latin-English Proverbs" Metrical Preface and Epilogue to Alfred's...
identifiable book, aside from the generic book - or possibly Bible - of Riddle 24, that 'speaks' to us from the Anglo-Saxon period, albeit on another's...
he regarded them as theological "Dogmaticists". The Epicurean paradox or riddle of Epicurus or Epicurus' trilemma is a version of the problem of evil. Lactantius...
oral Tamil riddles with German translation. A. A. Seyeb-Gohrab, Courtly Riddles: Enigmatic Embellishments in Early Persian Poetry (Leiden: Leiden University...
juridical-detective riddle. Meir Sternberg notes that two genres merge in the story: A riddle and a test; the juridical dilemma, which is the riddle, also constitutes...
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