Riddle 84

Sacred Texts Legends and Sagas WordGumbo: Old English Dictionaries [External Site] Index Previous Next Riddle 84 Verse Indeterminate Saxon - An wiht is on eorþan wundrum acenned, hreoh ond reþe, hafað ryne strongne, grimme grymetað ond be grunde fareð. Modor is monigra mærra wihta. - 5 - Fæger ferende fundað æfre; neol is nearograp. Nænig oþrum mæg wlite ond wisan wordum gecyþan, hu mislic biþ mægen þara cynna, fyrn forðgesceaft; fæder ealle bewat - 10 - or ond ende, swylce an sunu, mære meotudes bearn, þurh ...ed, ond þæt hyhste mæge... ...es gæ... dyre cræft... ...... - 15 - ...onne hy aweorp... ...þe ænig þara ...fter ne mæg oþer cynn eorþan þon ær wæs - 20 - wlitig ond wynsum, Biþ sio moddor mægene eacen, wundrum bewreþed, wistum gehladen, hordum gehroden, hæleþum dyre. Mægen bið gemiclad, meaht gesweotlad, - 25 - wlite biþ geweorþad wuldornyttingum, wynsum wuldorgimm wloncum getenge, clængeorn bið ond cystig, cræfte eacen; hio biþ eadgum leof, earmum getæse, freolic, sellic; fromast ond swiþost, - 30 - gifrost ond grædgost grundbedd trideþ, þæs þe under lyfte aloden wurde ond ælda bearn eagum sawe, swa þæt wuldor wifeð, worldbearna mægen, þeah þe ferþum gleaw - 35 - mon mode snottor mengo wundra. Hrusan bið heardra, hæleþum frodra, geofum bið gearora, gimmum deorra; worulde wlitigað, wæstmum tydreð, firene dwæsceð, - 40 - oft utan beweorpeð anre þecene, wundrum gewlitegad, geond werþeode, þæt wafiað weras ofer eorþan, þæt magon micle ...sceafte. Biþ stanum bestreþed, stormum - 45 - ...len ...timbred weall, þrym... ...ed, hrusan hrineð, h... ...etenge, oft searwum biþ - 50 - deaðe ne feleð, þeah þe ...du hreren, hrif wundigen, ...risse. Hordword onhlid, hæleþum ge... - 55 - ...wreoh, wordum geopena, hu mislic sy mægen þara cy....