The most famous Anglo-Saxon riddles are the Exeter Book riddles, a collection of about 90 dating to around A.D. 1000; they appear here in crisp new translation from Old English.

Anglo-Saxons also enjoyed riddles. In the 900s, around one hundred were gathered together in the Exeter Book Riddles. Anglo-Saxon Riddle. Can you solve this Anglo-Saxon riddle?

The Anglo-Saxons, who migrated to modern-day England in the fifth and sixth centuries, were lovers of riddles and elaborate figures of speech.

Anglo-Saxons, who had a love of riddles and puzzles of all kinds, would have been able to “read” the stories embedded in the decoration. But for us it is trickier as we are not fluent in the ...

The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation Edited by Greg Delanty and Michael Matto, Norton, $35 (512p) ISBN 978-0-393-07901-2 ...