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The modern sculpture 'The Riddle' on Exeter High Street by Michael Fairfax, which is inscribed with texts of Old English riddles and evokes how they reflect the material world. The Exeter Book riddles are a fragmentary collection of verse riddles in Old English found in the later tenth-century anthology of Old English poetry known as the Exeter ...
It is made of stainless steel and is 6.5 metres (21 ft) high. Riddles from the 10th-century Exeter Book, translated from Old English by Kevin Crossley-Holland, are cut into the eight panels in mirror-writing, each readable from the panel opposite. The spheres at the base of the sculpture bear the answers to the riddles, reflected onto the ...
The artist whose conceived and designed the "Geoneedle" sculpture was Michael Fairfax. [1] He also conceived and designed the "Exeter Riddle" in Exeter . The Geoneedle is constructed from a variety of different stones, representing both the major building stones to be found on the Jurassic Coast and the sequence of rocks that form this part of ...
Sculpture: Stainless steel: Inscribed with riddles from the 10th-century Exeter Book [27] More images: Historical Panels Broad Street, Ilfracombe: c. 2006: Roger Dean: Sculpture: Bronze: Six reliefs show three scenes from the town, each from the past and in the present day. [28] In Memory, May 1942
The Exeter Riddle Sculpture in Exeter High Street, created by artist Michael Fairfax and installed in 2005 (from Exeter) Image 68 Lamp standard from the 1905 Exe bridge, installed at Butts Ferry , on Exeter Quayside , in 1983 (from Exeter )
Exeter Book Riddle 7 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records) [1] is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century Exeter Book, in this case on folio 103r. The solution is believed to be 'swan' and the riddle is noted as being one of the Old English riddles whose solution is most widely agreed on. [ 2 ]
Exeter Book Riddle 9 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records) [1] is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century Exeter Book, in this case on folio 103r–v. The solution is believed to be 'cuckoo'. [2] [3] [4] The riddle can be understood in its manuscript context as part of a sequence of bird-riddles. [5]
Exeter Book Riddle 83 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records) [1] is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century Exeter Book.Its interpretation has occasioned a range of scholarly investigations, but it is taken to mean 'Ore/Gold/Metal', with most commentators preferring 'precious metal' or 'gold', [2] and John D. Niles arguing specifically for the ...