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2 unusual facts about The Riddle


Elidhu

These are Arkan, the personnification of ice, who is often seen as evil (although Maerad is given reason to think otherwise in The Riddle); and Ardina, Maerad's ancestor, who is seen as good.

She also appears in The Riddle as a lunar faerie or demigoddess, called the Moonchild, in which form she is said to be the daughter of the moon.



see also

Aarudhra

Ramudiki Sita Yemautundi? or How is Sita related to Rama?, put before the public the riddle of Mandodari, Sita and Hanuman and their origins in a lucid and scholarly way.

Dining club

The Twelve True Fishermen is the name of a fictional club, the title of a short story by G. K. Chesterton in which his detective Father Brown solves the riddle of the disappearance of the club's silver.

Empathy

In his 2008 book, Solving the Riddle of Right and Wrong, philosopher Iain King presents two reasons why empathy is the "essence" or "DNA" of right and wrong.

Fredrik von Sydow

In the early 21st century two books were written about the Sydow murders, Uppsala attorney Anders Frigell's von Sydowmordens gåta ("The riddle of the von Sydow murders"; Uppsala: Uppsala Publ. House, 2002) and the novel I skuggan av ett brott ("In the shadow of a crime", Stockholm: Bromberg, 2004) by the writer Helena Henschen, who is herself a granddaughter of Hjalmar and niece of Fredrik von Sydow.

John Strugnell

Ron Rosenbaum, "The Riddle of the Scrolls", Vanity Fair, reprinted in The Secret Parts of Fortune

Josephine Brunsvik

Steblin, Rita (2009): "Beethovens 'Unsterbliche Geliebte': des Rätsels Lösung." Beethoven's "Immortal Beloved": the Riddle Solved.

M/F

Burgess in his memoir quotes Frank Kermode, who in The Listener, showed that he had read his Lévi-Strauss and saw that the novel was perhaps not fully intelligible without a knowledge of the riddle-incest nexus.

Marching line

Amir Aczel, The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention that Changed the World, ISBN 0-15-600753-3

Robert Lenkiewicz

On and off, for nearly 30 years, he worked on his great masterpiece, the Riddle Mural in the Round Room at Port Eliot house, home of the Earl of St. Germans, but died before its completion.