Truth Is Trickiest

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By Jennifer Neville

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Truth Is Trickiest seeks to turn the study of Old English riddles away from reductive searches for single answers.

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Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Riddle Titles

1. Introduction: Soð bið Swicolast

   • "Truth Is Trickiest"

2. The Joy of Limits: The Heroic Idiom as "Code"

3. Muddying the Waters: The Heroic Idiom as Camouflage and Disguise

4. Dark Tracks through the Heroic Idiom: Aporia, Irony, and Paradox

5. Domestic Practices: Manufacturing and Implements

6. The Strange Game of Sex: Asexual Reproduction and Gratuitous Sex

7. Not Concluding but Continuing

Appendix: The Argument over Solutions
Bibliography
Index