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This is a book full of ingenious characters that speak their names in riddles. Here you will meet a one-eyed garlic seller, a bookworm, an iceberg, an oyster, the sun and moon and a host of others from the everyday life and imagination of the Anglo-Saxons. John Porter's sparkling translations retain all the vigor and subtlety of the original Old English poems, transporting us back over a thousand years to the roots of our language and literature. This edition contains all 95 Exeter Book riddles.
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