2. The Exeter Book: an anthology of Anglo-Saxon poetry presented to Exeter Cathedral by Loefric, first Bishop of Exeter 1050-1071, and still in the possession of the Dean and Chapter. 1895, edition. for the, The Exeter Book is the source of the Old English riddles still known today. Angelo Hornak, Alamy Stock Photo. The Book of Exeter, inscribed in the 18th century, is a rare treasure. A lot. The Phoenix is an Old English reworking of the 4th-century Latin Carmen de Ave Phoenice, a song concerning the phoenix bird which has been attributed to Lactantius. The Old English poem is found in the 10th-century Exeter Book. Moralitates de avibus, by Hugues de Fouilloy. England, 18th century. The Wanderer is an Old English poem preserved in only one of the four major surviving Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, The Exeter Book, and although its basic structure and elegiac tone are widely accepted, the exact nature of the speech and a number of The speakers in the poem remain subjects of debate see More generally, as, Notes: This riddle appears on v-107r of the Exeter Book. The Old English text above is based on this edition: Elliott van Kirk Dobbie and George Philip Krapp, eds, The Exeter Book, Anglo-Saxon Poetic, New York: Columbia University Press, 1936, Note that this edition numbers the text ,