"Because the riddles have no title and no answers are provided, there still is no consensus as to what some of them mean."

Surely this implies that, although key is a perfectly good answer to Riddle 44, my own guess semi-turgid membrum virilis is equally valid?

My own instinct is that when the question was originally asked circa 700 in a Mercian MeadHall Quiz, the heavily-armed guy who shouted from the back: "my massive quimsplitter!" was probably awarded the points.*

In GeWisse
Pet "Glutter of Pigeons" Luc.



(*In the original version of 'The Hobbit' by Germanic philologist JRR Tolkien, as privately circulated to members of the Oxford Inklings group , this is also the answer to the book's central riddle (based on OE sources) of "What has he got in his pocketses?")