The ninety-six Anglo-Saxon riddles in the eleventh-century "Exeter
Book" are poems of great charm, zest, and subtlety. Ranging from
natural phenomena (such as icebergs and storms at sea) to animal
and bird life, from the Christian concept of the creation to
prosaic domestic objects (such as a rake and a pair of bellows),
and from weaponry to the peaceful pursuits of music and writing,
they are full of sharp observation, earthy humour and, above all, a
sense of wonder. The main text of this volume contains Kevin
Crossley-Holland's newly-revised translations of seventy-five
fascinating and discursive riddles - all those not very badly
damaged or impenetrably obscure - while a further sixteen are
translated in the notes. These translations are very widely
anthologised in Britain and the USA. Sir Arthur Bliss and William
Mathias set some of them to music, Ralph Steadman has illustrated
them and Michael Fairfax has incorporated them in his Riddle
Sculpture.
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