Riddle 50

Sacred Texts Legends and Sagas WordGumbo: Old English Dictionaries [External Site] Index Previous Next Riddle 50 Verse Indeterminate Saxon - Wiga is on eorþan wundrum acenned dryhtum to nytte, of dumbum twam torht atyhted, þone on teon wigeð feond his feonde. Forstrangne oft - 5 - wif hine wrið; he him wel hereð, þeowaþ him geþwære, gif him þegniað mægeð ond mæcgas mid gemete ryhte, fedað hine fægre; he him fremum stepeð life on lissum. Leanað grimme - 10 - þam þe hine wloncne weorþan læteð.