Exeter Book Riddle 26
Exeter Book Riddle 26 is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century Exeter Book.
The riddle is almost unanimously solved as 'gospel book'.
Text and translation
As edited by Krapp and Dobbie, and translated by Megan Cavell, the riddle reads:Editions, translations, and recordings
Editions
- Krapp, George Philip and Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie, The Exeter Book,, 3, pp. 193–94.
- Williamson, Craig, The Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book.
- Muir, Bernard J., The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry: An Edition of Exeter Dean and Chapter MS 3501, 2nd edn, 2 vols.
- Foys, Martin et al. . Online edition annotated and linked to digital facsimile, with a modern translation.
Translations
- Jane Hirschfield, 'Some enemy took my life', in The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation, ed. by Greg Delanty and Michael Matto, pp. 164–67
Recordings
- Michael D. C. Drout, , Anglo-Saxon Aloud'' .