{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/ascp/a03_3424.htm","path":"neu/ascp/a03_3424.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/ascp/a03_3424.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 84\n Verse Indeterminate Saxon\n \n - \n An wiht is on eor\u00fean \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 wundrum acenned, \n hreoh ond re\u00fee, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 hafa\u00f0 ryne strongne,\n grimme grymeta\u00f0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ond be grunde fare\u00f0.\n Modor is monigra \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 m\u00e6rra wihta.\n- 5\n- \n F\u00e6ger ferende \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 funda\u00f0 \u00e6fre; \n neol is nearograp. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 N\u00e6nig o\u00ferum m\u00e6g\n wlite ond wisan \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 wordum gecy\u00fean,\n hu mislic bi\u00fe \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 m\u00e6gen \u00feara cynna,\n fyrn for\u00f0gesceaft; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 f\u00e6der ealle bewat\n- 10\n- \n or ond ende, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 swylce an sunu, \n m\u00e6re meotudes bearn, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00feurh ...ed,\n ond \u00fe\u00e6t hyhste m\u00e6ge... \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ...es g\u00e6...\n dyre cr\u00e6ft...\n......\n- 15\n- \n ...onne hy aweorp... \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \n ...\u00fee \u00e6nig \u00feara\n ...fter ne m\u00e6g\n o\u00feer cynn \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 eor\u00fean\n \u00feon \u00e6r w\u00e6s\n- 20\n- \n wlitig ond wynsum, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \n Bi\u00fe sio moddor \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 m\u00e6gene eacen,\n wundrum bewre\u00feed, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 wistum gehladen,\n hordum gehroden, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 h\u00e6le\u00feum dyre.\n M\u00e6gen bi\u00f0 gemiclad, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 meaht gesweotlad,\n- 25\n- \n wlite bi\u00fe geweor\u00fead \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 wuldornyttingum, \n wynsum wuldorgimm \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 wloncum getenge,\n cl\u00e6ngeorn bi\u00f0 ond cystig, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 cr\u00e6fte eacen;\n hio bi\u00fe eadgum leof, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 earmum get\u00e6se,\n freolic, sellic; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 fromast ond swi\u00feost,\n- 30\n- \n gifrost ond gr\u00e6dgost \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 grundbedd tride\u00fe, \n \u00fe\u00e6s \u00fee under lyfte \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 aloden wurde\n ond \u00e6lda bearn \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 eagum sawe,\n swa \u00fe\u00e6t wuldor wife\u00f0, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 worldbearna m\u00e6gen,\n \u00feeah \u00fee fer\u00feum gleaw\n- 35\n- \n mon mode snottor \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 mengo wundra. \n Hrusan bi\u00f0 heardra, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 h\u00e6le\u00feum frodra,\n geofum bi\u00f0 gearora, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 gimmum deorra;\n worulde wlitiga\u00f0, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 w\u00e6stmum tydre\u00f0,\n firene dw\u00e6sce\u00f0,\n- 40\n- \n oft utan beweorpe\u00f0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 anre \u00feecene, \n wundrum gewlitegad, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 geond wer\u00feeode,\n \u00fe\u00e6t wafia\u00f0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 weras ofer eor\u00fean,\n \u00fe\u00e6t magon micle \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ...sceafte.\n Bi\u00fe stanum bestre\u00feed, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 stormum\n- 45\n- \n ...len \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ...timbred weall, \n \u00ferym... \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ...ed,\n hrusan hrine\u00f0, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 h...\n ...etenge,\n oft searwum bi\u00fe\n- 50\n- \n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 dea\u00f0e ne fele\u00f0, \n \u00feeah \u00fee\n ...du hreren, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 hrif wundigen,\n ...risse.\n Hordword onhlid, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 h\u00e6le\u00feum ge...\n- 55\n- \n ...wreoh, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 wordum geopena, \n hu mislic sy \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 m\u00e6gen \u00feara cy....","title":"Riddle 84","type":"page"}