wordRiddleWordsA puzzle-speech that hides an answer. Not proverb, and not every sphinx story under a genre name.Norse traditionRiddle appears in Norse tradition.The Poetic Edda stages riddle contests among wisdom speech (Vafþrúðnismál neighbors). A named riddle craft in that corpus, not kenning as the compressed metaphor already filed and not a children’s puzzle dump.from Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation) · Poetic Edda, medieval Icelandic compilation; Larrington trans. 1996/2014appears in · sourced · documentedsourcesPoetic Edda · Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation)The Poetic Edda, trans. Carolyne Larrington.