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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Gestumbl Heiðr 36VIII (Heiðr 83)

[All]: Taylor (1951, 24-8) identifies a subset of a riddle (his collection is of riddles in English, though he cites worldwide parallels) which he terms ‘The Odin Riddle’, in which an ‘unusual number of feet’ forms part of the clue and the solution concerns a rider on horseback. He feels that the Old Norse example is a ‘special application’, however, rather than that other riddles of this type originate with it.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Taylor, Archer. 1951. English Riddles from Oral Tradition. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

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