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  2. Featherless bird-riddle - Wikipedia

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    The featherless bird-riddle is an international riddle type that compares a snowflake to a bird. In the nineteenth century, it attracted considerable scholarly attention because it was seen as a possible reflex of ancient Germanic riddling, arising from magical incantations.

  3. Category:Riddles - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Print/export ... Exeter Book Riddles 68-69; F. La Fada Morgana (Catalan folk tale) Featherless bird-riddle; Finnic riddles;

  4. Exeter Book Riddles - Wikipedia

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    Trans. by Craig Williamson, A Feast of Creatures: Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Songs (1982) While the Exeter Book was found in a cathedral library, and while it is clear that religious scribes worked on the riddles, not all of the riddles in the book are religiously themed. Many of the answers to the riddles are everyday, common objects.

  5. Exeter Book riddle 9 - Wikipedia

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    Exeter Book Riddle 9 (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–v. The solution is believed to be 'cuckoo'. [2] [3] [4] The riddle can be understood in its manuscript context as part of a sequence of bird-riddles. [5]

  6. Riddle - Wikipedia

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    A riddle is a statement, question, or phrase having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved. Riddles are of two types: enigmas, which are problems generally expressed in metaphorical or allegorical language that require ingenuity and careful thinking for their solution, and conundra, which are questions relying for their effects on punning in either the question or the ...

  7. Hebrew riddles - Wikipedia

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    The most prominent riddle in the Bible is Samson's riddle: Samson outwitted the Philistines by posing a riddle about the lion and the beehive until they learned the answer from his Philistine bride, costing Samson 30 suits of clothes (Judges 14:5-18). [5] In the Book of Proverbs, it mentions "the words of the wise and their riddles."

  8. If You See a Hawk, Here's the True, Unexpected Significance ...

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    Here's why a hawk might fly into your life (and if that's a good thing).

  9. Exeter Book - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] The Exeter Book is the largest and perhaps oldest [3] [4] known manuscript of Old English literature, [2] [5] [6] [7] containing about a sixth of the Old English poetry that has survived. [2] [8] In 2016 UNESCO recognized the book as "the foundation volume of English literature, one of the world's principal cultural artefacts ...