Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book… (1963)
“ Mrs. von Erhardt-Siebold, who regards it as “one of the finest” and praises its “ingenious and fascinating poetry,” offers the tempting solution (PMLA lxi [1946] , 910–15) of given an identity Death, in the manner of Plato. She divides it into seven parts (as printed above) : death is not real, not abstract; it comes privately and only once; it is a “suprasensible entity”; it is not really lifeless: it has eternal life ”
