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"The Husband's Message" is an anonymous Old English poem, 53 lines long [1] and found only on folio 123 of the Exeter Book.The poem is cast as the private address of an unknown first-person speaker to a wife, challenging the reader to discover the speaker's identity and the nature of the conversation, the mystery of which is enhanced by a burn-hole at the beginning of the poem.
52. What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in 1,000 years? Answer: The letter "m." 53. Throw away the outside and cook the inside, then eat the outside and throw away the inside.
Exeter Book Riddle 44 (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. Its solution is accepted to be ' key '.
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 post 78 Riddles for Adults That Will Test Your Smarts appeared first on Reader's Digest. You'll have to really stretch your brain to figure out some of these easy, funny, and hard riddles for ...
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 ]
The Veronese Riddle (Italian: Indovinello veronese) is a riddle written in either Medieval Latin or early Romance on the Verona Orational, probably in the 8th or early 9th century, by a Christian monk from Verona, in northern Italy. It is an example of a writing-riddle, a popular genre in the Middle Ages and still
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