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Poem of the Day: Riddles 8

  1. ic ðurh muð sprece || mongum reordum
  2. wrencum singe || wrixle geneahhe
  3. heafodwoðe || hlude cirme
  4. healde mine wisan || hleoðre ne miðe
  5. eald æfensceop || eorlum bringe
  6. blisse in burgum || ðonne ic bugendre
  7. stefne styrme || stille on wicum
  8. sittað nigende || saga hwæt ic hatte
  9. ðe swa scirenige || sceawendwisan
  10. hlude onhyrge || hæleðum bodige
  11. ...

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Word Form of the Day: seruet

servo verb pres subj act 3rd sg conj1 are_vb

se-ruo verb fut ind act 3rd sg conj3

servo verb pres subj act 3rd sg conj1 are_vb

servo verb pres subj act 3rd sg conj1 are_vb

se-ruo verb fut ind act 3rd sg conj3

servo verb pres subj act 3rd sg conj1 are_vb

Number of occurrences in corpus: 35

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Metre of the Day

Riddles 66 1a

Bliss
Scansion: xxSx
Type: a1b
Sievers
Scansion: xx / x
Type: A3

Syntax: ivA
Light Verse

Places with this scansion (bliss)

Other places with this scansion (sievers)

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