Anglo-Saxon Riddles

"This book is full of ingenious characters who speak their names in riddles. Here you will meet a one-eyed garlic seller, a bookworm, an iceberg, an oyster, the sun and moon and a host of others from the everyday life and imagination of the early English." "John Porter's translations retain all the vigour and subtlety of the original Old English poems, transporting us back over a thousand years to the roots of our language and literature."--BOOK JACKET.