IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1302: Early Medieval Riddles
Wednesday 3 July 2019, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | The Riddle Ages: An Anglo-Saxon Riddle Blog |
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Organiser: | Jennifer Neville, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London |
Moderator/Chair: | Megan Cavell, Department of English Literature, University of Birmingham |
Paper 1302-a | Dark Looks at the Sword: 'Wæpnum Awyrged' (Exeter Book Riddle 20) (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Old English, Mentalities |
Paper 1302-b | 'Riddles inside an enigma': The Authorship and Audience of the Bern Riddles - A Reassessment (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Mentalities, Rhetoric |
Paper 1302-c | Exeter Book Riddle 95 (the 'Sun') (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Science |
Abstract | As in previous years, in this session we seek to represent the varied subject matter of the Riddle Ages and a range of approaches to it, in particular bringing together riddles from both the Latin and Old English sides of the tradition. Jennifer Neville addresses the surprisingly critical questions that arise from the presentation of the sword in Exeter Book Riddle 20. Neville Mogford examines the authorship and audience of the Bern Riddles. Dieter Bitterli offers a new solution, 'Sun', to the concluding text of the Exeter collection, Riddle 95. Together these papers explore how the demand to 'say what I am called' in the Early Medieval Riddle tradition leads not only to a continuing production of solutions but also a continuing interrogation of values and identities. |