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The Old English and Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition

Edited and translated by Andy Orchard

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$35.00 • £29.95 • €31.95

ISBN 9780674055339

Publication Date: 05/11/2021

928 pages

5-1/4 x 8 inches

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Andy Orchard is Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and a Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Oxford.

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View Andy Orchard’s companion volume, A Commentary on The Old English and Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition, which provides extensive notes and commentary on hundreds of Latin, Old English, and Old Norse–Icelandic riddles that illuminate and clarify the multifaceted and interconnected nature of a broad, international tradition

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