IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 1101: Anglo-Saxon Riddles, I: Reflecting on the Human
Wednesday 5 July 2017, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | The Riddle Ages |
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Organisers: | Megan Cavell, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford Jennifer Neville, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London |
Moderator/Chair: | Megan Cavell, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford |
Paper 1101-a | Strange Parents: Sources and Analogues of the Exeter Riddles in the Berne Collection (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Latin |
Paper 1101-b | 'Mec feonda sum feore besnyĆ¾ede': Humans in the Exeter Book Riddles (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - Old English |
Paper 1101-c | 'The Place Where Men Drink': The Church as Hall in the Exeter Book Riddles (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Religious Life |
Abstract | The papers in Session I analyse metaphors and depictions of humanity in Old English and Latin riddle collections. Thus, Klein discusses imagery of birth and parenthood in the under-appreciated Latin Berne riddles, as well as this collection's relationship with the poems of the Exeter Book; Sebo examines the antagonistic relationship between humans and the speaking objects of the Old English riddles; and Neville explores the intersection of secular and spiritual spaces in the Exeter Book riddles' depictions of halls. |