TY - BOOK ID - 77898396 TI - Say what I am called : the Old English riddles of the Exeter Book and the Anglo-Latin riddle tradition PY - 2009 SN - 1442689072 9781442689077 9780802093523 0802093523 PB - Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, DB - UniCat KW - Riddles, English (Old) KW - English poetry KW - Riddles, Latin KW - Riddles in literature. KW - Latin riddles KW - Anglo-Saxon riddles KW - English riddles, Old KW - Old English riddles KW - Riddles, Anglo-Saxon KW - Riddles, Old English KW - History and criticism. KW - Exeter book. KW - Codex exoniensis KW - Exeterbuch KW - Exeter Dean and Chapter MS 3501 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77898396 AB - Perhaps the most enigmatic cultural artifacts that survive from the Anglo-Saxon period are the Old English riddle poems that were preserved in the tenth century Exeter Book manuscript. Clever, challenging, and notoriously obscure, the riddles have fascinated readers for centuries and provided crucial insight into the period. In Say What I Am Called, Dieter Bitterli takes a fresh look at the riddles by examining them in the context of earlier Anglo-Latin riddles. Bitterli argues that there is a vigorous common tradition between Anglo-Latin and Old English riddles and details how the contents of the Exeter Book emulate and reassess their Latin predecessors while also expanding their literary and formal conventions. The book also considers the ways in which convention and content relate to writing in a vernacular language. A rich and illuminating work that is as intriguing as the riddles themselves, Say What I Am Called is a rewarding study of some of the most interesting works from the Anglo-Saxon period. ER -