In "A Feast of Creatures," Craig Williamson recasts nearly one
hundred Old English riddles of the Exeter Book into a modern verse
mode that yokes the cadences of Aelfric with the sprung rhythm of
Gerard Manley Hopkins.Like the early English riddlers before him,
Williamson gives voice to the nightingale, plow, ox, phallic onion,
and storm-wind. In lean and taut language he offers us mead
disguised as a mighty wrestler, the sword as a celibate thane, the
silver wine-cup as a seductress, the horn transformed from
head-warrior to ink-belly or battle-singer. In his notes and
commentary he gives us possible and probable solutions, sources,
and analogues, a shrewd sense of literary play, and traces the
literary and cultural contexts in which each riddle may be viewed.
In his introduction, Williamson traces for us the history of
riddles and riddle scholarship.
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