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Exeter Book Riddle 48, Line 7b
Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik, 2021Abstract The emendation of the manuscript reading beþuncan to beþencan in line 7b of the Exeter Book’s Riddle 48 has been widely accepted. The Old English Dialogues, however, provide evidence that a strong passive participle beþuncen had been introduced into the paradigm of the weak verb beþencan (to entrust) in the Mercian dialect, admitting the ...
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Exeter Book Riddle 6, Lines 7–8
Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik, 2021Abstract One of the very few ‘rules’ that operate (almost) without exceptions in Old English prose and poetry is that in se-relatives, se is preceded by the preposition that governs it. In the entire Old English corpus, Mitchell (1985: §2244) finds only one counterexample in the Exeter Book Riddle 6, lines 7–8.
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Silence in the Exeter Book Riddles
Exemplaria, 2016Many Old English riddles of the Exeter Book delight in sonic play, but a small number luxuriate instead in provocative silences. This article brings together contemporary and medieval sound theory to examine silence in the riddles, arguing that attitudes to silence were ambivalent rather than negative.
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The Structure of the Exeter Book Codex (Exeter, Cathedral Library, MS. 3501)
Scriptorium, 1986Etude codicologique du E. B. Description de la structure du manuscrit en 3 livrets composant le recueil le plus important de poesie vieil ...
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Scriptorium, 1958
Coveney Dorothy-K. The ruling of the Exeter Book. In: Scriptorium, Tome 12 n°1, 1958. pp. 51-55.
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Coveney Dorothy-K. The ruling of the Exeter Book. In: Scriptorium, Tome 12 n°1, 1958. pp. 51-55.
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Fostering the Cuckoo: Exeter Book Riddle 9
The Review of English Studies, 2007Riddlesare generally thought to end once a solution has been found, but Exeter Book Riddle 9, although apparently straightforward and only twelve lines long, has more to offer than a disguised description of a cuckoo. The anthropomorphism that serves as the bird's disguise reveals social commentary regarding the practice of fostering, which may cast ...
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On the Beginning of the Exeter Book
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016The beginning of The Exeter Book seems to bear the signs of the proto-textual arts of memory, as taught by classical tradition and practiced by clerics of the time. The spoken and inscribed sensibilities of the text might be read as a spiritual exercise in anticipation of the Feast of the Nativity.
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