Old English Riddles
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The Old English Riddles survive through a manuscript of about the year 1000 left to Exeter Cathedral by Leofric, its first bishop. The Riddles are secular poems, robustly celebrating the familiar objects and natural world of eighth-century England. This work presents a selection of these poems.

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The Old English Riddles survive through a manuscript of about the year 1000 left to Exeter Cathedral by Leofric, its first bishop. The Riddles are secular poems, robustly celebrating the familiar objects and natural world of eighth-century England. This work presents a selection of these poems.
Autorenporträt
Michael Alexander was Honorary Professor of English Literature at St Andrew's University, Scotland. He translated The Earliest English Poems and Beowulf (both Penguin Classics). His critical study The Poetic Achievement of Ezra Pound (1979) won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award. He published A History of Old English Literature. He is currently working on a monogram [Medievalism] for Yale University Press.