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The Church Fathers · c. 680–690
The Riddles
Enigmata
Aldhelm · c. 639–709
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What it is
A hundred verse riddles in which ordinary things — a candle, a bookcase, silkworms, a storm — speak in the first person about what they are.
Why it lasted
The model for the Old English riddles of the Exeter Book, and a rare current of playfulness in early medieval Latin.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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