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The Prose Solomon and Saturn in the Nowell Codex (the Beowulf manuscript) is a question-and-answer text dealing chiefly with issues of biblical or Christian lore. It has many similarities to a later Old English prose dialogue, Adrian and Ritheus [2] and, later still, the Middle English Master of Oxford's Catechism.
Odin and Bilbo break the established structure of a riddle contest and ask a virtually impossible yet simply worded question instead of a riddle about an object or mythological event. Gollum and King Heidrek were both angry and frustrated with their opponent. King Heidrek becomes violent and swings his sword, Tyrfing, at Odin. Gollum demands a ...
Odin, in his guise as a wanderer, as imagined by Georg von Rosen (1886). Odin (/ ˈ oʊ d ɪ n /; [1] from Old Norse: Óðinn) is a widely revered god in Germanic paganism. Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about him, associates him with wisdom, healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, war, battle, victory, sorcery, poetry, frenzy, and the runic alphabet, and ...
"The Odes of Solomon" in Texts and Studies VIII. Charlesworth, James H (1977). The Odes of Solomon. Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press. ISBN 0-89130-202-6. Franzmann, M (1991). The Odes of Solomon: Analysis of the Poetical Structure and Form. Göttingen. Harris, JR and A Mingana (1916, 1920). The Odes and Psalms of Solomon in 2 vols. Manchester.
Odin and Vafþrúðnir battle in a game of knowledge (1895) by Lorenz Frølich. Vafþrúðnismál ( Old Norse : "The Lay of Vafþrúðnir ") [ 1 ] is the third poem in the Poetic Edda . It is a conversation in verse form conducted initially between the Æsir Odin and Frigg , and subsequently between Odin and the jötunn Vafþrúðnir, as they ...
Odin the Wanderer (the meaning of his name Gangleri); illustration by Georg von Rosen, 1886 Odin ( Old Norse Óðinn) is a widely attested god in Germanic mythology . The god is referred to by numerous names and kenningar , particularly in the Old Norse record.
Both king Solomon and the reader are confronted with some kind of a juridical-detective riddle. Meir Sternberg notes that two genres merge in the story: A riddle and a test; the juridical dilemma, which is the riddle, also constitutes a test for the young king: if he can solve it, he will be acknowledged as possessing divine wisdom. [15]
The riddles are all in verse, each one stanza long, and well integrated in their style into the genre of Eddaic poetry. [6] Each stanza has six to eight lines, usually in the metre ljóðaháttr, followed by a two-line conclusion in the metre fornyrðislag, 'Heiðrekr konungr | hyggðu at gátu' ('consider this riddle, King Heiðrekr') (though in the manuscripts themselves this repeated line ...