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Translated out of the Old English, The Exeter Book, 10th c. 

Criteria include ingenuity, staying power, the puzzles’ effect on history—and whether they gave the author a good kind of headache or bad kind of headache.

Letters: <strong>Alice Raw</strong> of the University of Oxford and <strong>Richard North</strong> of University College London respond to research suggesting that the chalk hill figure in Dorset dates from Anglo-Saxon times

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