IMC 2016: Sessions

Session 1240: Anglo-Saxon Riddles and Wisdom, IV: Learned Content and Contacts

Wednesday 6 July 2016, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:	The Riddle Ages: An Anglo-Saxon Riddle Blog
Organisers:	Megan Cavell, Department of English, Durham University Jennifer Neville, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London
Moderator/Chair:	Megan Cavell, Department of English, Durham University
Paper 1240-a	Sorting out the Rings: Astronomical Tropes in Exeter Book Riddle 4 (Language: English) Jennifer Neville, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Science
Paper 1240-b	When is an Anglo-Saxon Riddle Not a Riddle?: Cracking the Enigma Code (Language: English) Andy Orchard, Pembroke College, University of Oxford Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Latin
Paper 1240-c	How Far Did the Influence of Anglo-Saxon Riddling Reach the Continent? (Language: English) Mercedes Salvador-Bello, Departamento de Literatura Inglesa y Norteamericana, Universidad de Sevilla Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Latin
Abstract	The papers in Session IV explore the place of riddles within the wider knowledge economy of the early medieval world. Thus, Neville discusses the representation of cosmological information in Exeter Book Riddle 4; Orchard pushes the limits of riddling as a genre through analysis of both Old English and Anglo-Latin texts; and Salvador-Bello examines just how far that genre’s influence reached in her discussion of Anglo-Saxon riddle manuscripts on the continent.