{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/ascp/a03_2231.htm","path":"neu/ascp/a03_2231.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/ascp/a03_2231.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 31\n Verse Indeterminate Saxon\n \n - \n Is \u00fees middangeard \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 missenlicum \n wisum gewlitegad, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 wr\u00e6ttum gefr\u00e6twad.\n Ic seah sellic \u00feing \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 singan on r\u00e6cede;\n wiht w\u00e6s nower \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 werum on gemonge,\n- 5\n- \n sio h\u00e6fde w\u00e6stum \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 wundorlicran. \n Ni\u00feerweard \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 w\u00e6s neb hyre,\n fet ond folme \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 fugele gelice;\n no hw\u00e6\u00fere fleogan m\u00e6g \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ne fela gongan,\n hw\u00e6\u00fere fe\u00feegeorn \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 fremman onginne\u00f0,\n- 10\n- \n gecoren cr\u00e6ftum, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 cyrre\u00f0 geneahhe \n oft ond gelome \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 eorlum on gemonge,\n site\u00f0 \u00e6t symble, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 s\u00e6les bide\u00fe,\n hwonne \u00e6r heo cr\u00e6ft hyre \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 cy\u00fean mote\n werum on wonge. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ne heo \u00fe\u00e6r wiht \u00feige\u00f0\n- 15\n- \n \u00fe\u00e6s \u00fee him \u00e6t blisse \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 beornas habba\u00f0. \n Deor domes georn, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 hio dumb wuna\u00f0;\n hw\u00e6\u00fere hyre is on fote \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 f\u00e6ger hleo\u00feor,\n wynlicu wo\u00f0giefu. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wr\u00e6tlic me \u00feince\u00f0,\n hu seo wiht m\u00e6ge \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 wordum lacan\n- 20\n- \n \u00feurh fot neo\u00fean, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 fr\u00e6twed hyrstum. \n Hafa\u00f0 hyre on halse, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00feonne hio hord wara\u00f0,\n b\u00e6r, beagum deall, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 bro\u00feor sine,\n m\u00e6g mid m\u00e6gne. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Micel is to hycgenne\n wisum wo\u00f0boran, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 hw\u00e6t sio wiht sie.","title":"Riddle 31","type":"page"}