{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/ascp/a03_2253.htm","path":"neu/ascp/a03_2253.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/ascp/a03_2253.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 53\n Verse Indeterminate Saxon\n \n - \n Ic seah on bearwe \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 beam hlifian, \n tanum torhtne. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00fe\u00e6t treow w\u00e6s on wynne,\n wudu weaxende. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 W\u00e6ter hine ond eor\u00fee\n feddan f\u00e6gre, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 o\u00fe\u00fe\u00e6t he frod dagum\n- 5\n- \n on o\u00ferum wear\u00f0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 aglachade \n deope gedolgod, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 dumb in bendum,\n wri\u00feen ofer wunda, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 wonnum hyrstum\n foran gefr\u00e6twed. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nu he f\u00e6cnum weg\n \u00feurh his heafdes m\u00e6gen \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 hildegieste\n- 10\n- \n o\u00ferum ryme\u00f0. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oft hy an yste strudon \n hord \u00e6tg\u00e6dre; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 hr\u00e6d w\u00e6s ond unl\u00e6t\n se \u00e6ftera, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 gif se \u00e6rra f\u00e6r\n genamnan in nearowe \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ne\u00fean moste.","title":"Riddle 53","type":"page"}