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 |
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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) 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) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Language and Literature - Old English |
Paper 1240-c | How Far Did the Influence of Anglo-Saxon Riddling Reach the Continent? (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Language and Literature - Old English |
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 genreās influence reached in her discussion of Anglo-Saxon riddle manuscripts on the continent. |