The answer to the Anglo-Saxon riddle posted yesterday was a butter churn. It comes from the Exeter Book, a tenth century collection of Old English literature.Go and wash your mind out with soap, Andrew!
The answer to the Anglo-Saxon riddle posted yesterday was a butter churn. It comes from the Exeter Book, a tenth century collection of Old English literature.
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That's two people in the whole world that I know of who have heard of the Exeter Book - you and Kitchen Witch :).
In an age when reading and writing was a rare skill possessed only by a few, I love the fact that somebody bothered to write down a collection of rude jokes and other random writings, and kept it in a safe place for 1000 years.
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