caa a22 4500 38804859X CHVBK 20180307125044.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199812 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0263675100004841 doi S0263675100004841 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0263675100004841 Niles John D. University of California at Berkeley Exeter Book Riddle 74 and the play of the text [Elektronische Daten] [John D. Niles] Riddle 74 is one of a handful of Old English riddles of the Exeter Book that have stubbornly resisted a solution. As Bruce Mitchell and Fred C. Robinson remark, ‘scholars have suggested answers but none satisfies all the conditions set forth in the poem'. Peter Clemoes finds the attributes that are ascribed to this particular riddle-subject to be ‘so paradoxical that it seems impossible to name their possessor at all'. Riddles normally do have answers, however, and this one is no exception. My first aim in this article is to offer an answer to Riddle 74 that will put debate to rest as to its intended solution. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Anglo-Saxon England Cambridge University Press 27(1998-12), 169-207 0263-6751 27<169 1998 27 ASE https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263675100004841 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263675100004841 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Niles John D. University of California at Berkeley NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Anglo-Saxon England Cambridge University Press 27(1998-12), 169-207 0263-6751 27<169 1998 27 ASE CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge