{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/ascp/a03_2226.htm","path":"neu/ascp/a03_2226.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/ascp/a03_2226.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 26\n Verse Indeterminate Saxon\n \n - \n Mec feonda sum \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 feore besny\u00feede, \n woruldstrenga binom, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 w\u00e6tte si\u00fe\u00fean,\n dyfde on w\u00e6tre, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 dyde eft \u00feonan,\n sette on sunnan, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00fe\u00e6r ic swi\u00fee beleas\n- 5\n- \n herum \u00feam \u00fee ic h\u00e6fde. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Heard mec si\u00fe\u00fean \n sna\u00f0 seaxses ecg, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sindrum begrunden;\n fingras feoldan, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ond mec fugles wyn\n geond speddropum \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 spyrede geneahhe,\n ofer brunne brerd, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 beamtelge swealg,\n- 10\n- \n streames d\u00e6le, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 stop eft on mec, \n si\u00feade sweartlast. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mec si\u00fe\u00fean wrah\n h\u00e6le\u00f0 hleobordum, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 hyde be\u00feenede,\n gierede mec mid golde; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 for\u00feon me gliwedon\n wr\u00e6tlic weorc smi\u00fea, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 wire bifongen.\n- 15\n- \n Nu \u00fea gereno \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ond se reada telg \n ond \u00fea wuldorgesteald \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 wide m\u00e6re\n dryhtfolca helm, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 nales dol wite.\n Gif min bearn wera \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 brucan willa\u00f0,\n hy beo\u00f0 \u00fey gesundran \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ond \u00fey sigef\u00e6stran,\n- 20\n- \n heortum \u00fey hw\u00e6tran \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ond \u00fey hygebli\u00feran, \n fer\u00fee \u00fey frodran, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 habba\u00fe freonda \u00fey ma,\n sw\u00e6sra ond gesibbra, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 so\u00fera ond godra,\n tilra ond getreowra, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00fea hyra tyr ond ead\n estum yca\u00f0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ond hy arstafum\n- 25\n- \n lissum bilecga\u00f0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ond hi lufan f\u00e6\u00femum \n f\u00e6ste clyppa\u00f0. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Frige hw\u00e6t ic hatte,\n ni\u00feum to nytte. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nama min is m\u00e6re,\n h\u00e6le\u00feum gifre \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ond halig sylf.","title":"Riddle 26","type":"page"}