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Perhaps the most enigmatic cultural artifacts that survive from the Anglo-Saxon period are the Old English riddle poems that were preserved in the tenth century Exeter Book manuscript. Clever, challenging, and notoriously obscure, the riddles have fascinated readers for centuries and provided crucial insight into the period. In Say What I Am Called, Dieter Bitterli takes a fresh look at the riddles by examining them in the context of earlier Anglo-Latin riddles. Bitterli argues that there is a v

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Author

Bitterli, Dieter.;

Publisher

University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781442692022

Category

literary studies

Subjects

History, Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism

Updated

2026-03-25