I was watching a show a week or two ago. It was OA on Netflix. The people on it had to solve a puzzle to get to where they were going. It included puzzles and also clues, in the form of riddles.
That sort of riddle quest is a staple of adventurous movies. Indiana Jones featured some of that. In order to get to the Holy Grail Indiana had to know what "the penitent man" would do. I thought of National Treasure or The DaVinci Code, where characters are presented with coded messages that tell the location of treasures.
And of course, those sorts of riddles are staples in Dungeons and Dragons adventures.
Does anyone know when this sort of thing got started? Riddles have been featured in literature as part of adventures from Oedipus and the Sphinx, down to Bilbo with Gollum in the Hobbit, but those were a bit different. In those cases there was some creature who demanded to know the answer to a question, or they would eat the adventurer.
The kinds of stories I'm talking about is one where there is some sort of secret hidden, but there are clues.
It has been a long time since I read any version of the Quest for the Holy Grail, but I don't remember anything quite like that. In order to discover the grail, it was necessary to come to some sort of understanding, but once again it was about proving your knowledge. Ultimately, you found the grail by truly understanding the nature of God in the sacrament of communion, but you didn't have to search the land for the clue that said where the grail could be found, and recognize that when they said the place where the summer sun rises above the stone, they meant the sun stone at Stonehenge.
Does anyone know if there is a history of the sort of "National Treasure" version of things from folklore or medieval literature? And I have called this sort of thing a "riddle quest", but does anyone know if there is a standard sort of name for it?
That sort of riddle quest is a staple of adventurous movies. Indiana Jones featured some of that. In order to get to the Holy Grail Indiana had to know what "the penitent man" would do. I thought of National Treasure or The DaVinci Code, where characters are presented with coded messages that tell the location of treasures.
And of course, those sorts of riddles are staples in Dungeons and Dragons adventures.
Does anyone know when this sort of thing got started? Riddles have been featured in literature as part of adventures from Oedipus and the Sphinx, down to Bilbo with Gollum in the Hobbit, but those were a bit different. In those cases there was some creature who demanded to know the answer to a question, or they would eat the adventurer.
The kinds of stories I'm talking about is one where there is some sort of secret hidden, but there are clues.
It has been a long time since I read any version of the Quest for the Holy Grail, but I don't remember anything quite like that. In order to discover the grail, it was necessary to come to some sort of understanding, but once again it was about proving your knowledge. Ultimately, you found the grail by truly understanding the nature of God in the sacrament of communion, but you didn't have to search the land for the clue that said where the grail could be found, and recognize that when they said the place where the summer sun rises above the stone, they meant the sun stone at Stonehenge.
Does anyone know if there is a history of the sort of "National Treasure" version of things from folklore or medieval literature? And I have called this sort of thing a "riddle quest", but does anyone know if there is a standard sort of name for it?
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