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The Exeter Book was given to what is now the Exeter Cathedral library by Leofric, [2] the first bishop of Exeter, in 1072. It is believed to have originally contained 130 [ 3 ] or 131 leaves, of which the first 7 [ 3 ] or 8 have been replaced with other leaves; the original first 8 leaves are lost.
Editions and translations. Foys, Martin et al. (ed.) (2019-) Old English Poetry in Facsimile Project, Madison: Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture, University of Wisconsin-Madison; edited with digital images of its manuscript pages, and translated.
One riddle, known as Exeter Book riddle 30, is found twice in the Exeter Book (with some textual variation), indicating that the Exeter Book was compiled from more than one pre-existing manuscript collection of Old English riddles. [1] [2] Considerable scholarly effort has gone into reconstructing what these exemplars may have been like. [3]
The Wanderer is an Old English poem preserved only in an anthology known as the Exeter Book.It comprises 115 lines of alliterative verse.As is often the case with Anglo-Saxon verse, the composer and compiler are anonymous, and within the manuscript the poem is untitled.
The Exeter Book itself is inscribed with such a curse. The Anglo-Saxon culture that took all acts of ƿearg-cƿedol (evil speaking) very seriously and even warily watched for potential witches, Niles argues, would have little trouble accepting the poem as a curse. Whether intended as a formal malediction or an emotional vituperation is less ...
The Exeter Book riddles can be situated within a wider tradition of 'speaking objects' in Anglo-Saxon culture and have much in common with poems such as The Dream of the Rood and The Husband's Message and with artefacts such as the Alfred Jewel or the Brussels Cross, which endow inanimate things with first-person voices. [28]