Exeter Book of Riddles Answers
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1-3 Storm
4 Bell
5 Shield
6 Sun
7 Swan
8 Nightingale, or Mockingbird possibly
9 Cuckoo
10 Barnacle Goose
11 Wine
12 Ox becoming Leather
13 Chickens
14 Horn
15 Vixen (possibly Badger)
16 Anchor
17 Beehive [see blog post: usually given as "Fortified Town" or "Ballista"]
18 Wine-Jar (Amphora)
19 Nobleman Riding (with Hawk)
20 Sword
21 Plough
22 Charles' Wain (a constellation, often identified with the Big Dipper)
23 Bow [and Arrow]
24 Magpie
25 Onion (but shame on you)
26 Book (possibly Bible)
27 Mead
28 Beer or Ale
29 Sun and Moon
30 Wood
31 Bagpipe
32 Ship
33 Iceberg
34 Rake
35 Coat of Mail
36 Ship (?)
37 Bellows
38 Calf
39 Night and Day (?)
40 Nature
41 fragmentary (maybe Writing?)
42 Cock and Hen
43 Soul and Body
44 Key
45 Dough
46 "Lot and his Family"
47 Bookworm
48 Chalice
49 Bookcase
50 Fire
51 A Hand Writing
52 Flail
53 Battering-Ram
54 Butter Churn
55 Cross, most likely (though not at all indirect)
56 Loom
57 Music (or Poetry possibly) (often given as "Swallows")
58 [Riding-]Well
59 Rosary (?)
60 Reed Pen
61 Shirt
62 Poker
63 Cup
64 Nobleman Riding
65 Onion
66 Nature
67 fragmentary (possibly Bible?)
68 Ice (ASPR 68 & 69)
69 Pipe (ASPR 70)
70 ????? (ASPR gives my 69 & 70 as one riddle)
71 unknown, fragmentary (Is that really a beet at the end there?)
72 Calf
73 Spear
74 Water(?)
75 Peeing (ASPR 75 & 76))
76 Oyster (ASPR 77)
77 too fragmentary to guess (ASPR 78)
78 ???? (ASPR 79)
79 War-Horn (ASPR 80)
80 Weathercock (ASPR 81)
81 too fragmenary to guess (ASPR 82)
82 Metal or Ore (ASPR 83)
83 Water (?) (ASPR 84)
84 Fish in River (ASPR 85)
85 "One-Eyed Seller of Garlic" (ASPR 86)
86 Bellows(?) (ASPR 87)
87 Antler, Inkhorn (ASPR 88)
88 too fragmentary to guess (ASPR 89)
89 Latin riddle “ Solution uncertain (ASPR 90) [Christ, sans doute :) ]
90 Key? (ASPR 91)
91 Wood(?), the Covers of a Book (?) (ASPR 92)
92 Inkhorn (ASPR 93)
93 too fragmentary to guess (ASPR 94)
94 Riddle (?) (ASPR 95)