Riddle 26

[highlyeccentric]

Hear Ye, Hear Ye!

Riddle 26 has been solved by rayneshadow.

Suggestions included:

*a phallus, from all and sundry. phrasemuffin wisely noted that it wasn't all that useful to one's neighbours.
*A rose, from both Azzy and Phrasemuffin. Works but isn't hairy enough.
*From lepsdavid, who actually knew the answer, we have the suggestion of a long-handled fire stoker thing, with a fur hand grip to stop heat transferrence. Except that i'm not sure if that's historically accurate.

the answer is in fact
'An Onion'.

well, that's how it's usually solved. The scribe of the Exeter book wisely didn't put the solution as the title of the riddle (unlike the scribes of the latin riddle books of the day). So it could be anything, really. But probably an onion or something in that class. Personally i wouldn't want to be doing suggestive things with an onion, looks rather uncomfortable. A leek is a bit more phallic but doesn't smell so much.
I'm told spring onions are long and thin and make you cry. Provided they were grown in Anglo-Saxon England, that, i think, is the answer.

Comments

[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

Um, Amy, I don't think you actually know draygo... and something tells me he isn't the one you meant to credit the suggestion of a rose to ;)

but it's nice to know that at least my gender and my userpic have become lodged in your mind eternally =D

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

BUGGER!

call it exam stress. i know better than that.

[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

don't worry - I know
I think I was just shocked at the fact that there is actually someone with draygo as their username... still am

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

yeah. they made exactly one post, on the default LJ layout... still.

nasty person. confusing me with icons bearing names that aren't yours.

[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

well, actually, Draygo is a character of mine in a still-to-written story that I may or may not finally begin work on in the coming holidays... so, while technically not the name I (or anyone else) gave myself, it is my name in a sense... kinda

... Look! It's Whatsit!! *runs away and hides in Philosophy Notes*

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

whoo! whatsit!

there we go then... i'd probably answer to the name of any of my old characters. who were mostly male, so that'd be interesting :P

*returns to reading stuff in anglo saxon*

[laiaratoiel.livejournal.com]

I actually thought 'onion' when I read it, but it sort of didn't fit with "attacks me in my redness"... =/

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

musta been a red onion... or in the red dirt, being attacked and dug up.