The Old English and Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, 69) - Hardcover

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9780674055339: The Old English and Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, 69)
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ISBN 10: 0674055330 ISBN 13: 9780674055339
Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2021

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What offers over seven hundred witty enigmas in several languages? Answer: The Old English and Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition. Riddles, wordplay, and inscrutable utterances have been at the heart of Western literature for many centuries. Often brief and always delightful, medieval riddles provide insights into the extraordinary and the everyday, connecting the learned and the ribald, the lay and the devout, and the familiar and the imported. Many solutions involve domestic life, including “butter churn” and “chickens.” Others like “the harrowing of hell” or “the Pleiades” appeal to an educated elite. Still others, like “the one-eyed seller of garlic,” are too absurd to solve: that is part of the game. Riddles are not simply lighthearted amusement. They invite philosophical questions about language and knowledge.

Most riddles in this volume are translated from Old English and Latin, but it also includes some from Old Norse–Icelandic. The Old English and Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition assembles, for the first time ever, an astonishing array of riddles composed before 1200 CE that continue to entertain and puzzle.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Andy Orchard is Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and a Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Oxford.

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Verlag
Harvard University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0674055330
ISBN 13 
9780674055339
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Anzahl der Seiten
893
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Orchard Andy
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