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Riddle 72
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic wæs lytel
fo...
...te geaf
...pe þe unc gemæne
- 5
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sweostor min,
fedde mec ...... oft ic feower teah
swæse broþor, þara onsundran gehwylc
dægtidum me drincan sealde
þurh þyrel þearle. Ic þæh on lust,
- 10
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oþþæt ic wæs yldra ond þæt an forlet
sweartum hyrde, siþade widdor,
mearcpaþas Walas træd, moras pæðde,
bunden under beame, beag hæfde on healse,
wean on laste weorc þrowade,
- 15
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earfoða dæl. Oft mec isern scod
sare on sidan; ic swigade,
næfre meldade monna ængum
gif me ordstæpe egle wæron.