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I'm not an Old English specialist, but lets talk about the Exeter riddles! For every like on this post I'll tweet a riddle, and also some thoughts about it!
If you don't know, the "Exeter Riddles" are a bunch of riddles (ninety-five of them) that are found in a bound manuscript anthology of Old English poetry. The book is called "The Exeter Book" because it was donated to Exeter cathedral in the early 11th century.
The Exeter Book is the largest single extant collection of Old English poetry, and it includes some of the Old English poetry that you're most likely to have encountered as a non-specialist, other than Beowulf. It's got "The Wanderer" and "The Seafarer" and "The Ruin" and more.
It also has a riddles! These aren't all grouped together in the book, they're all written in poetry, and they run the gamut from very mundane to completely baffling!
Ok I'm going to try to sort out the threading a little, because even I can't keep track.
Riddle 51 https://twitter.com/doctormoffett/status/1334173543521726465
Riddle 51 https://twitter.com/doctormoffett/status/1334173543521726465
Riddle 54 (not 47, sorry) https://twitter.com/doctormoffett/status/1335355599681445890?s=19
