Exeter Book Riddle 30

Exeter Book Riddle 30 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records) is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century Exeter Book. Since the suggestion of F. A. Blackburn in 1901, its solution has been agreed to be the Old English bēam, understood both in its primary sense 'tree' but also in its secondary sense 'cross'.

Exeter Book Riddle 30

Exeter Book Riddle 30 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records) is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century Exeter Book. Since the suggestion of F. A. Blackburn in 1901, its solution has been agreed to be the Old English bēam, understood both in its primary sense 'tree' but also in its secondary sense 'cross'.