The Lorsch riddles, also known as the Aenigmata Anglica,[1] are a collection of twelve hexametrical, early medieval Latin riddles that were anonymously written in the ninth century.
The absence of line breaks separating individual verses (among other things)[2] show that they are possibly of English origin.
[5] The riddles are preserved in only one manuscript (Vatican, Pal.
[6] The manuscript was written c. 800 in the Carolingian scriptorium of Lorsch Abbey, where it was rediscovered in 1753.
[7] It contains among a variety of grammatical texts the Aenigmata of Symphosius, the Enigmata of Aldhelm and a variety of prose and metrical texts by Boniface.