Exeter Book Riddle 33
Exeter Book Riddle 33 is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century Exeter Book. Its solution is accepted to be 'Iceberg'. The most extensive commentary on the riddle is by Corinne Dale, whose ecofeminist analysis of the riddles discusses how the iceberg is portrayed through metaphors of warrior violence but at the same time femininity.Text and translation
As edited by Craig Williamson and translated by Corinne Dale, the riddle reads:Editions
- Krapp, George Philip and Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie, The Exeter Book, The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, 3, https://web.archive.org/web/20181206091232/http://ota.ox.ac.uk/desc/3009.
- Williamson, Craig, The Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book, no. 31.
- Muir, Bernard J., The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry: An Edition of Exeter Dean and Chapter MS 3501, 2nd edn, 2 vols.
Recordings
- Michael D. C. Drout, '', performed from the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records edition.
