exeter book

Old English Moths!

Event Date: 
19/08/2013 - 10:30am to 20/08/2013 - 3:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Cathedral

Exeter Cathedral owns the most incredible book. Known as The Exeter Book it is one quarter of the world’s surviving collection of Anglo-Saxon literature (one of the other 3 texts being the better known Beowulf). It contains poems and all but one of the known Anglo-Saxon riddles (a traditions which helped to inspire Tolkien’s famous riddle scene in The Hobbit).

Join us to explore some of these riddles including the well-known 'riddle 47' about a mischievous moth and to have a go at some moth activities including making moth wings and your own moth bookmark!

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