The Old English and Anglo-Latin riddle tradition

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Title
"The Old English and Anglo-Latin riddle tradition"
Statement of Responsibility
edited and translated by Andy Orchard
Publisher
  • Harvard University Press
Publication Year
  • 2021
Book size
22 cm
Series Name / No
  • : cloth

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Notes

Bibliography: p. 871-875

Includes index

Summary: "Riddles, wordplay, and enigmatic utterance have been at the heart of English literature for many centuries: if the crossword as a form is only a hundred years old, the principles that underlie its successful solution go back more than a millennium, when anagrams, acrostics, and a variety of word and sound games both within and beyond Old English and Latin, the two literary languages of Anglo-Saxon England, are attested both widely and well. The Anglo-Saxon riddle tradition is rich and reaches back: the demonstrable connection between the Old English material and a literate and learned Latinate tradition only emphasizes the importance of investigating such a link in closer focus. But it also reaches across, connecting what might otherwise seem somewhat trivial texts to a broader tradition that transcends national, temporal, cultural, and linguistic boundaries. Anglo-Saxons evidently wanted to understand the world, to explain it, and perhaps above all, to marvel at its myriad ways. ..."

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