| 英文摘要: |
Copied in the south of England towards the end of the tenth century, the Exeter Book has attracted generations of scholars since the 18th century. The Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book are also highly controversial. The uses of metaphor, personification, antithesis, and paradox has endowed riddle a feature of vague and obscure. Therefore, as a form of knowledge, Riddle has rarely been considered seriously by science historians. Through analyzing riddles of the Exeter book, this essay attempts to point out the natural history knowledge manifested in them. Riddle also reflects the characteristics of the medieval natural history |
