Exeter Book Riddle 26
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Exeter Book Riddle 26 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records)[1] is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century Exeter Book.
The riddle is almost unanimously solved as 'gospel book'.[2][3]
Text and translation
[edit]As edited by Krapp and Dobbie,[1]: 193–94 and translated by Megan Cavell,[4] the riddle reads:
Mec feonda sum feore besnyþede, |
A certain enemy robbed me of my life, |
Editions, translations, and recordings
[edit]Editions
[edit]- Krapp, George Philip and Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie (eds), The Exeter Book, The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, 3 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1936), pp. 193–94.
- Williamson, Craig (ed.), The Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1977).
- Muir, Bernard J. (ed.), The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry: An Edition of Exeter Dean and Chapter MS 3501, 2nd edn, 2 vols (Exeter: Exeter University Press, 2000).
- Foys, Martin et al. (eds.) Old English Poetry in Facsimile Project (Madison, WI: Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture, 2019-). Online edition annotated and linked to digital facsimile, with a modern translation.
Translations
[edit]- Jane Hirschfield, 'Some enemy took my life', in The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation, ed. by Greg Delanty and Michael Matto (New York and London: Norton, 2011), pp. 164–67
Recordings
[edit]- Michael D. C. Drout, 'Riddle 26', Anglo-Saxon Aloud (24 October 2007) (performed from the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records edition).
References
[edit]- ^ a b George Philip Krapp and Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie (eds), The Exeter Book, The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, 3 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1936), http://ota.ox.ac.uk/desc/3009 Archived 2018-12-06 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Riddle Ages".
- ^ "Exeter Book Riddles Solutions | Old English Poetry Project | Rutgers University".
- ^ Megan Cavell, 'Riddle 26 (or 24)', The Riddle Ages (11 August 2014).