Spirits and skins: the sceapheord of Exeter Book Riddle 13 and holy labour

While the unnamed creatures of Exeter Book Riddle 13 have been read as ‘chickens’ since the early twentieth century, this solution has never fully satisfied either the narrative description or the cryptic puzzles of this short verse text. In this article, I propose a new solution, the Old English wo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burns, R
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2022