If you lose the contest of wits, Frald isn't too disappointed because at least you accepted the challenge. You still receive five points of Legion reputation, along with a five point boost to Frald's disposition. Salyn Sarethi isn't so impressed: his disposition towards you drops by ten.

Oven, Beehive, Falcon Cage, (Book)case, Pen and ink, Barrow, Sacrificial altar, Millpond and sluice Q: I have 10 books and I label them with their number. I take seven out to read. How many books are left? A: 9! You have taken the book with the label seven! I am wonderful help to women, The hope of something to come. I harm No citizen except my slayer. Rooted I stand on a high bed. I am shaggy below. Sometimes the beautiful Peasant's daughter, an eager-armed, Proud woman grabs my body, Rushes my red skin, holds me hard, Claims my head. The curly-haired Woman who catches me fast will feel Our meeting. Her eye will be wet. [16] Trans. by Craig Williamson, A Feast of Creatures: Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Songs (1982) One riddle, known as Exeter Book riddle 30 is found twice in the Exeter Book (with some textual variation), indicating that the Exeter Book was compiled from more than one pre-existing manuscript collection of Old English riddles. [1] [2] Considerable scholarly effort has gone into reconstructing what these exemplars may have been like. [3]

Some riddles seem to have come directly from vernacular tradition. [6] :175–219 Form and style [ edit ] Muir, Bernard J., ed. (2000). The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry: An Edition of Exeter Dean and Chapter MS 3501 (2nded.). Exeter: University of Exeter Press. ISBN 0-85989-630-7. Q: There are a number of books on a shelf. If one book is the 6th from the left and 4th from the right, how many books are on the shelf? A: There are 9 books on the shelf. Rachel A. Burns, 'Spirits and Skins: The Sceapheord of Exeter Book Riddle 13 and Holy Labour', The Review of English Studies (2022), doi: 10.1093/res/hgab086. a b c Gameson, Richard (December 1996). "The origin of the Exeter Book of Old English poetry". Anglo-Saxon England. Cambridge University Press. 25: 135–185. doi: 10.1017/S0263675100001988. ISSN 1474-0532. S2CID 162992373.

Williamson, Craig, (2017) The Complete Old English Poems. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 9780812248470. James Paz, Nonhuman Voices in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Material Culture (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017), pp. 17-26; http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=631090. Susanne Kries, ' Fela í rúnum eða í skáldskap: Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian Approaches to Riddles and Poetic Disguises', in Riddles, Knights, and Cross-dressing Saints: Essays on Medieval English, ed. by Thomas Honegger, Variations Sammlung/Collection, 5 (Bern: Peter Lang, 2004), pp. 139-64 ISBN 3-03910-392-X.a b c d e f g h i j k l Shippey, Tom (2017). The Complete Old English Poems. Translated by Williamson, Craig. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. x-xi, 299-302. ISBN 978-0-8122-9321-0. Matto, Michael; Delanty, Greg (2011). The Word Exchange. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. ISBN 978-0393342413. Anthology of Old English poetry, featuring many of the texts from the Exeter Book.

What am I? A: Hyphen. The first two lines yield high-fen. A hyphen is used by a writer to tie (or cramp) two words together. A noble guest of great lineage dwells In the house of man. Grim hunger Cannot harm him, nor feverish thirst, Nor age, nor illness. If the servant Of the guest who rules, serves well On the journey, they will find together Bliss and well-being, a feast of fate; If the slave will not as a brother be ruled By a lord he should fear and follow Then both will suffer and sire a family Of sorrows when, springing from the world, They leave the bright bosom of one kinswoman, Mother and sister, who nourished them. Let the man who knows noble words Say what the guest and servant are called. [16] Trans. by Craig Williamson, A Feast of Creatures: Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Songs (1982)While the Exeter Book was found in a cathedral library, and while it is clear that religious scribes worked on the riddles, not all of the riddles in the book are religiously themed. Many of the answers to the riddles are everyday, common objects. There are also many double entendres, which can lead to an answer that is obscene. One example of this is Riddle 23/25: Q: I am very important to all living creatures. I was firstborn in the sun. I am a chapter in textbooks and I am not made of fire. I make the sun-worthy. Too much of me may kill you. But humans can still prevent me. Andy Orchard (ed. and trans.), The Old English and Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition, Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 69 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021); accompanied by Andy Orchard, A Commentary on the Old English and Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition, Supplements to the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 2021). If you are running a race, and you overtake the person in second place, what place do you move into? Krapp, George Philip; Dobbie, Elliot Van Kirk, eds. (1936). The Exeter Book. The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records. Vol.III. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-08767-5.