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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Oxford University Press
2022
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