“Dough.”
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“Key.” Another sexual riddle.
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“Dough,” one of the sexual riddles. Podcast: Play in new window | Download “Cock and Hen.” Podcast: Play in new window | Download “Earth,” “fire,” “wisdom,” or “water,” but nobody really knows as there is a missing folio in the manuscript, so the first part of the riddle is lost. Podcast: Play in new window | Download “Creation.” This is a translation of Aldhelm’s Enigma number 100: “De creatura.” Podcast: Play in new window | Download “Day” or “time.” Podcast: Play in new window | Download “Young bull.” Podcast: Play in new window | Download “Wagon” or “bellows.” Podcast: Play in new window | Download “Ship.” [a substitute cypher system encodes the words “man,” “wife” and “horse” in line 5. I have not read the letters aloud]. Podcast: Play in new window | Download “Mail coat.” [Note this is also the famous “Leiden Riddle,” found appended to a collection of Aldhelm’s Latin riddles. Both are translations of Aldhelm’s Riddle 33: “Lorica.” ] Podcast: Play in new window | Download “Iceberg.” Podcast: Play in new window | Download “Bagpipe.” (possibly “organ”). Another sexual riddle. Podcast: Play in new window | Download |
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