{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/ascp/a03_2205.htm","path":"neu/ascp/a03_2205.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/ascp/a03_2205.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Legends and Sagas\u00a0\n WordGumbo: Old English Dictionaries [External Site]\n Index\u00a0\n Previous\u00a0\n Next\u00a0\n \n \n Riddle 5\n Verse Indeterminate Saxon\n \n - \n Ic eom anhaga \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 iserne wund, \n bille gebennad, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 beadoweorca s\u00e6d,\n ecgum werig. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oft ic wig seo,\n frecne feohtan. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Frofre ne wene,\n- 5\n- \n \u00fe\u00e6t me geoc cyme \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 gu\u00f0gewinnes, \n \u00e6r ic mid \u00e6ldum \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 eal forwur\u00f0e,\n ac mec hnossia\u00f0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 homera lafe,\n heardecg heoroscearp, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 hondweorc smi\u00fea,\n bita\u00f0 in burgum; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ic abidan sceal\n- 10\n- \n la\u00feran gemotes. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 N\u00e6fre l\u00e6cecynn \n on folcstede \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 findan meahte,\n \u00feara \u00fee mid wyrtum \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 wunde geh\u00e6lde,\n ac me ecga dolg \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 eacen weor\u00f0a\u00f0\n \u00feurh dea\u00f0slege \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 dagum ond nihtum.","title":"Riddle 5","type":"page"}