{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/ascp/a03_2212.htm","path":"neu/ascp/a03_2212.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/ascp/a03_2212.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 12\n Verse Indeterminate Saxon\n \n - \n Fotum ic fere, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 foldan slite, \n grene wongas, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00feenden ic g\u00e6st bere.\n Gif me feorh losa\u00f0, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 f\u00e6ste binde\n swearte Wealas, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 hwilum sellan men.\n- 5\n- \n Hwilum ic deorum \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 drincan selle \n beorne of bosme, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 hwilum mec bryd triede\u00f0\n felawlonc fotum, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 hwilum feorran broht\n wonfeax Wale \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 wege\u00f0 ond \u00fey\u00f0,\n dol druncmennen \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 deorcum nihtum,\n- 10\n- \n w\u00e6te\u00f0 in w\u00e6tre, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 wyrme\u00f0 hwilum \n f\u00e6gre to fyre; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 me on f\u00e6\u00f0me stica\u00fe\n hygegalan hond, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 hwyrfe\u00f0 geneahhe,\n swife\u00f0 me geond sweartne. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saga hw\u00e6t ic hatte,\n \u00fee ic lifgende \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 lond reafige\n- 15\n- \n ond \u00e6fter dea\u00fee \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 dryhtum \u00feeowige.","title":"Riddle 12","type":"page"}