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For adults, riddles are a great way to exercise the brain and help keep your mind sharp. Also, if you find yourself in an awkward social situation, sometimes a good riddle can help break the ice.
Q: What do the numbers 11, 69 and 88 all have in common? A: They all read the same way when placed upside down. Q: If 2 is company and 3 is a crowd, what are 4 and 5? A: 9. Q: I add 5 to 9 and get 2.
The best riddles with answers for every age. Test your knowledge about about math, animals, words, and more.
The riddle is usually solved as 'shirt', 'mailcoat' or 'helmet'. It is noted as one of a number of Old English riddles with sexual connotations [ 2 ] and as a source for gender-relations in early medieval England.
Exeter Book Riddle 7 (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, in this case on folio 103r. The solution is believed to be 'swan' and the riddle is noted as being one of the Old English riddles whose solution is most widely agreed on. [ 2 ]
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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 ...
The riddle was a major, prestigious literary form in early medieval England, and riddles were written both in Latin and Old English verse. The pre-eminent composer of Latin riddles in early medieval England was Aldhelm (d. 709), while the Old English verse riddles found in the tenth-century Exeter Book include some of the most famous Old ...