A Collection of Welsh Riddles
Author: Vernam Hull
Publisher:
Published: 1942
Total Pages: 114
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A Collection of Irish Riddles
Author: Vernam Hull
Publisher:
Published: 1955
Total Pages: 152
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnriddling the Exeter Riddles
Author: Patrick J. Murphy
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2011-03-28
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0271078170
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe vibrant and enigmatic Exeter Riddles (ca. 960–980) are among the most compelling texts in the field of medieval studies, in part because they lack textually supplied solutions. Indeed, these ninety-five Old English riddles have become so popular that they have even been featured on posters for the London Underground and have inspired a sculpture in downtown Exeter. Modern scholars have responded enthusiastically to the challenge of solving the Riddles, but have generally examined them individually. Few have considered the collection as a whole or in a broader context. In this book, Patrick Murphy takes an innovative approach, arguing that in order to understand the Riddles more fully, we must step back from the individual puzzles and consider the group in light of the textual and oral traditions from which they emerged. He offers fresh insights into the nature of the Exeter Riddles’ complexity, their intellectual foundations, and their lively use of metaphor.
Writing the Welsh borderlands in Anglo-Saxon England
Author: Lindy Brady
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2017-05-31
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1526115751
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first study of the Anglo-Welsh border region in the period before the Norman arrival in England, from the fifth to the twelfth centuries. Its conclusions significantly alter our current picture of Anglo/Welsh relations before the Norman Conquest by overturning the longstanding critical belief that relations between these two peoples during this period were predominately contentious. Writing the Welsh borderlands in Anglo-Saxon England demonstrates that the region which would later become the March of Wales was not a military frontier in Anglo-Saxon England, but a distinctively mixed Anglo-Welsh cultural zone which was depicted as a singular place in contemporary Welsh and Anglo-Saxon texts. This study reveals that the region of the Welsh borderlands was much more culturally coherent, and the impact of the Norman Conquest on it much greater, than has been previously realised.
A World Treasury of Riddles
Author: Phil Cousineau
Publisher: Mango Media
Published: 2001-10-01
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 160925127X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDIVThe bestselling author of The Art of Pilgrimage and Once and Future Myths presents a selection of mind-bending brain teasers. Riddles by any name—enigmas, conundrum, word puzzles, teasers—have been posed since ancient times to test people’s wit and stretch their imaginations. Mythologist and adventurer Phil Cousineau resurrects this lost art form in A World Treasury of Riddles. Drawing from world literature, history, myth, and folklore, Cousineau has created a one-of-a-kind book that presents riddles from ancient Greece to the Ozarks, from Leonardo da Vinci to Lewis Carroll, and more. Previously published as Riddle Me This: A World Treasury of Word Puzzles, Folk Wisdom, and Literary Conundrums
Irish Influence on Medieval Welsh Literature
Author: Patrick Sims-Williams
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 0199588651
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPatrick Sims-Williams provides an approach to some of the issues surrounding Irish literary influence on Wales, situating them in the context of the rest of medieval literature and international folklore.
The Riddle in the Poem
Author: Živilė Gimbutas
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780761828457
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Riddle in the Poem is a study of the ramifications of riddles and riddle elements in the context of selected twentieth-century poetry. It includes works by Francis Ponge, Wallace Stevens, Richard Wilbur, Rainer M. Rilke, and Henrikas Radauskas. This book enlarges the scope of riddles as a "root of lyric" by connecting it with the folkloristic concept of "riddling," essentially a question and answer series, and by tracing the influence of the root in poetic methodology. The Riddle in the Poem may be defined as an attempt to advance the notion, which has been discussed in previous folkloristic and literary studies, which riddle as the root of lyric manifests itself in various ways.
Riddle Of The Riddle
Author: Senderovich
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-29
Total Pages: 103
ISBN-13: 1136893296
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 2005. The true folk riddle of oral traditions that have been rapidly disappearing from the face of the earth in the last hundred years is one of the most ancient threads of culture. One of the smallest genres of verbal culture—usually under a dozen of words, it is an intensely articulated utterance. It is eccentric and as such breaks every logical mould. This volume presents results of a study driven by the sheer intellectual curiosity of the author.
Ethnomathematics
Author: Marcia Ascher
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-12-01
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1351449508
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this truly one-of-a-kind book, Ascher introduces the mathematical ideas of people in traditional, or ""small-scale"", cultures often omitted from discussion of mathematics. Topics such as ""Numbers: Words and Symbols"", ""Tracing Graphs in the Sand"", ""The Logic of Kin Relations"", ""Chance and Strategy in Games and Puzzles"", and ""The Organization and Modeling of Space"" are traced in various cultures including the Inuit, Navajo, and Iroquois of North America; the Inca of South America; the Malekula, Warlpiri, Maori, and Caroline Islanders of Oceania, and the Tshokwe, Bushoong, and Kpelle of Africa. As Ascher explores mathematical ideas involving numbers, logic, spatial configuration, and the organization of these into systems and structures, readers gain both a broader understanding and anappreciation for the idease of other peoples.
Catalogue University of California Press Publications 1893-1943
Author: California. University. Press
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1944
Total Pages: 268
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