{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/ascp/a03_2215.htm","path":"neu/ascp/a03_2215.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/ascp/a03_2215.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 15\n Verse Indeterminate Saxon\n \n - \n Hals is min hwit \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ond heafod fealo, \n sidan swa some. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Swift ic eom on fe\u00fee,\n beadow\u00e6pen bere. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Me on b\u00e6ce standa\u00f0\n her swylce swe on hleorum. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hlifia\u00f0 tu\n- 5\n- \n earan ofer eagum. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ordum ic steppe \n in grene gr\u00e6s. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Me bi\u00f0 gyrn witod,\n gif mec onh\u00e6le \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 an onfinde\u00f0\n w\u00e6lgrim wiga, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00fe\u00e6r ic wic buge,\n bold mid bearnum, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ond ic bide \u00fe\u00e6r\n- 10\n- \n mid geogu\u00f0cnosle, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 hwonne g\u00e6st cume \n to durum minum, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 him bi\u00fe dea\u00f0 witod.\n For\u00feon ic sceal of e\u00f0le \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 eaforan mine\n forhtmod fergan, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 fleame nergan,\n gif he me \u00e6fterweard \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ealles weor\u00fee\u00f0;\n- 15\n- \n hine bera\u00f0 breost. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ic his bidan ne dear, \n re\u00fees on geruman, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (nele \u00fe\u00e6t r\u00e6d teale),\n ac ic sceal fromlice \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 fe\u00feemundum\n \u00feurh steapne beorg \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 str\u00e6te wyrcan.\n Ea\u00fee ic m\u00e6g freora \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 feorh genergan,\n- 20\n- \n gif ic m\u00e6gburge mot \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 mine gel\u00e6dan \n on degolne weg \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00feurh dune \u00feyrel\n sw\u00e6se ond gesibbe; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ic me si\u00fe\u00fean ne \u00feearf\n w\u00e6lhwelpes wig \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 wiht onsittan.\n Gif se ni\u00f0scea\u00fea \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 nearwe stige\n- 25\n- \n me on swa\u00fee sece\u00fe, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ne tos\u00e6le\u00fe him \n on \u00feam gegnpa\u00fee \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 gu\u00fegemotes,\n si\u00fe\u00fean ic \u00feurh hylles \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 hrof ger\u00e6ce,\n ond \u00feurh hest hrino \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 hildepilum\n la\u00f0gewinnum, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00feam \u00fee ic longe fleah.","title":"Riddle 15","type":"page"}