caa a22 4500 463200098 CHVBK 20180405153110.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11061-006-9012-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11061-006-9012-1 Heyworth Melanie The Centre for Medieval Studies, The University of Sydney, John Woolley Building - A20, 2066, Sydney, NSW, Australia aut The Devils in the Detail: A New Solution to Exeter Book Riddle 4 [Elektronische Daten] [Melanie Heyworth] A satisfactory and accepted solution to Riddle 4 in the vernacular collection of riddles in the Exeter Book has not yet been made and Riddle 4 remains one of the most puzzling riddles in the collection. However, detailed analysis of the semantic range of the language in Riddle 4 reveals that its language is found primarily in the particular religious contexts of the penitentials and homilies. These contexts direct the Riddle's audience to a specific reading, and thus solution, of its clues. It is argued in this paper that the Riddle's solution is a devil and that consequently the purpose of the Riddle is to remind Christians of the pervasive threat of the devil and of the need for continual vigilance against devilish temptation. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2007 Neophilologus Kluwer Academic Publishers 91/1(2007-01-01), 175-196 0028-2677 91:1<175 2007 91 11061 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-006-9012-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-006-9012-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Heyworth Melanie The Centre for Medieval Studies, The University of Sydney, John Woolley Building - A20, 2066, Sydney, NSW, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Neophilologus Kluwer Academic Publishers 91/1(2007-01-01), 175-196 0028-2677 91:1<175 2007 91 11061 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer