[MR] Riddle Contest at Baronial Birthday

[Kelly Keck]

At Dun Carraig's upcoming Beowulf Birthday
Bash<http://www.duncarraig.net/birthday>(November 10 in Brandywine,
MD), guests are challenged to a riddle contest.
Show off your wits and your skill with words, and see if you can stump your
fellow guests.

Riddles will be read at feast (by the riddle-writer or someone else, your
choice), and members of the populace will have the chance to guess each
riddle. A small prize will be given to everyone who comes up with a riddle
that no one can guess, as well as to any riddles judged to be particularly
amusing.

If you need inspiration, the Exeter Book is full of riddles (
http://www2.kenyon.edu/AngloSaxonRiddles/texts.htm).

Writing your riddles in the Anglo-Saxon verse form (or going all out and
writing them in Anglo-Saxon) is optional, but certainly will be considered
in judging. Double entendres are always amusing, though it would be best to
keep them subtle enough to go over the heads of young children. The "dirty"
riddles in the Exeter book all seemed designed to lead you in a
inappropriate direction, when the actual answer was something perfectly
innocent. Like this one:

*I have heard of something     wax in a corner,
swell and pop,     lift up the covers.
A proud-minded woman     seized with her hands
that boneless thing,     a prince’s daughter;
covered with her dress     the swelling thing.

*Any ideas what the innocent answer is? (I'm sure everyone can guess the
inappropriate one! :) )

I hope to hear your best riddles at the event!

YIS,
Lady Adriana Michaels