Here's a fun party game for the mead-hall that gives you a sense of Anglo-Saxon hilarity. The translations are mine, so that the clunky literalism is preserved. There is no list of upside-down answers at the end of the Exeter Book where these riddles are found; answers have been reached by scholarly consensus.
This may be the general character of Anglo-Saxon humor, but fortunately it's not the height. (Note: the answers to the second and third below are purportedly not what you're being led to think.)
For a full site on this dubious literary genre, a medieval organization called the Kalamazoo Riddle Group has the Exeter Book's Anglo-Saxon Riddles. (Kalamazoo, Michigan, hosts the nation's big medieval convention every year.)
#25
Ic eom weorð werum, wide funden |
I am worthy to men, widely found |
#23
Ic eom wunderlicu wiht wifum on hyhte |
I am a wondrous creature, a joy to women, |
#43
Ic on wincle gefrægn weaxan nathwæt |
I have learned that something grows in the corner, |
Wilcox, Jonathan. "'Tell me what I am': The Old English Riddles." Readings in Medieval Texts: Interpreting Old and Middle English Literature. Ed. David Johnson and Elaine Treharne. NY: Oxford University Press, 2005. 46-49.
Williamson, Craig, ed. The Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1977.