Exeter_Book_Riddle_61
Exeter Book Riddle 61
Old English riddle
Exeter Book Riddle 61 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records)[1] is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century Exeter Book. The riddle is usually solved as 'shirt', 'mailcoat' or 'helmet'. It is noted as one of a number of Old English riddles with sexual connotations[2] and as a source for gender-relations in early medieval England.[3]