Spirits and Skins: The Sceapheord of Exeter Book Riddle 13 and Holy Labour

Abstract 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 E...

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Published inThe Review of English studies Vol. 73; no. 310; pp. 429 - 441
Main Author Burns, Rachel A
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published UK Oxford University Press 24.06.2022
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