Exeter Book Riddle 47


Exeter Book Riddle 47 is one of the most famous of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century Exeter Book. Its solution is 'book-worm' or 'moth'.

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Interpretation

The extensive commentary on this riddle is concisely summarised by Cavell, and more fully by Foys.

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