Exeter Book Riddle 7
Exeter Book Riddle 7 is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century Exeter Book, in this case on folio 103r. The solution is believed to be 'swan' and the riddle is noted as being one of the Old English riddles whose solution is most widely agreed on. The riddle can be understood in its manuscript context as part of a sequence of bird-riddles.
Text
As edited by Richard Marsden, and translated by Elaine Treharne, Riddle 7 runs:Editions and translations
- Jessica Lockhart, and for Riddle 7, The Riddle Ages: Early Medieval Riddles, Translations and Commentaries, ed. by Megan Cavell, with Matthias Ammon, Neville Mogford and Victoria Symons
- Foys, Martin et al.,. Online edition annotated and linked to digital facsimile, with a modern translation.
Recordings
- Michael D. C. Drout, '', performed from the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records edition.