A Feast of Creatures: Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Songs

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CONTENTS P A R T O N E Introduction Selected Bibliography P A R T T W O The Riddles P A R T T H R E E Notes and Commentary Bibliography for Notes and Commentary Index of Solutions Acknowledgments C R E D I T S LITERARY SOURCES Permission to quote copyrighted material beyond fair use has been obtained for the following works: Michael Alexander, tr., The Earliest English Poems (Penguin Classics, 2nd ed., 1977), @ 1966, 1967by Michael Alexander, reprinted by permission of Penguin Books Ltd; Paul1 F. Baum, tr., Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book (Duke University Press, 1963), @ 1963 by Duke University Press (Durham, N.C.); Kevin Crossley-Holland, tr., The Exeter Riddle Book (published by The Folio Society for its members in 1978), "Bookworm Riddle," translated from the Old English of the Exeter Book by Kevin Crossley-Holland and reproduced by permission of Novello and Company Ltd; C. R. Dodwell, tr., Theophilus' The VariousArfs (Thomas Nelson, 1961),reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press; Richard Hamer, tr., A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse (Faber and Faber, 1970); Gerard Manley Hopkins, 7'he Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, eds. W . H. Gardner and N. H. MacKenzie (Oxford University Press, 1967); Ted Hughes, The Hawk in the Rain (Harper/Faber and Faber, 1957),Lupercal (Harper/Faber and Faber, 1960), and New Selected Poems (Harper and Row, 1982), lines from "Wind and "The Bull Moses" @ 1956, 1959 by Ted Hughes, reprinted by permission of Harper and Row, Publishers, Inc. and Faber and Faber Ltd; Rolfe Humphries, tr., Ovid's Metamorphoses (Indiana University Press, 1955); Charles W. Kennedy, The Earliest English Poetry (Oxford University Press, 1943),and tr., An Anthology of Old English Poetry (Oxford University Press, 1960); Burton Raffel, tr., Poems from the Old English (University of Nebraska Press, 1964), @ 1960, 1964 by the University of Nebraska Press; Adrienne Rich, Leaflets: Poems 1965-68 (W. W .Norton and Co., 1969), lines from "Abnegation" reprinted from Leaflets:Poems 1965-68, by Adrienne Rich, by permission of the author and the publisher, W . W . Norton and Company, Inc., @ 1969 by W . W . Norton and Credits Company, Inc., New York, N.Y.; Gary Snyder, Earth House Hold (New Directions , 1969), @ 1969 by Gary Snyder, reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation; Christopher Tolkien, ed. and tr., 7EeSaga of King Heidrek the Wise (Thomas Nelson, 1~60); William Carlos Williams,Paterson (New Directions , 1963), @ 1949 by William Carlos Williams, reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation; Craig Williamson, "Two Riddles," College English 35 (1974), and ed., 7Ee Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book (University of North Carolina Press, 1977); William Butler Yeats, selections from "The Wild Swans at Coole," reprinted by permission of Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. from CollectedPoems of William Butler Yeats, @ 1919 by Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., renewed 1947by Bertha Georgie Yeats, and by permission of A. P. Watt Ltd. ILLUSTRATIONS The illustrations used in this book are taken from George Speake, Anglo-Saxon Animal Art and Its GermanicBackground, @ 1980by Oxford University Press and are reprinted with the permission of the publisher. The plate numbers and original sources for the Speake drawings are as follows: Cover illustrations (from top to bottom): (1) portion of figure io.e, gilt-bronze harness mount, Hardingstone, Northants; (2) figure 6.m, triangular buckle, Faversham, Kent; (3) figure 6.0, ornament detail from bronze work-box, Burwell, Gr. 42, Cambs.; (4) figure 6.r, giltbronze mount, Asthall, Oxon. The title page illustration is figure 14.b, panel of ornament, Book of Dunow, fo. 192,Trinity College, Dublin; the section title page illustrations are each figure 15.a,drinking-cup mouthpiece, Sutton Hoo ship-burial, Suffolk. Credits xii ...