Old English Enigmatic Poems and Their Reception in Early Scholarship and Supernatural Fiction

The scholarly reception history of the Old English riddles and adjacent “enigmatic poems” of the Exeter Book reveals a long process of creating intelligibility and order out of a complicated and obscure manuscript context. Understanding this history of reception allows us to see the influence of Old...

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Main Author: Patrick Joseph Murphy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-02-01
Series:Humanities
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/11/2/34