A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

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Poem of the Day: Riddles 29

ic wiht geseah || wundorlice
hornum bitweonum || huðe lædan
lyftfæt leohtlic || listum gegierwed
huðe to ðam ham || of ðam heresiðe
walde hyre on ðære byrig || bur atimbran
searwum asettan || gif hit swa meahte
ða cwom wundorlicu wiht || ofer wealles hrof
seo is eallum cuð || eorðbuendum
ahredde ða ða huðe || ond to ham bedraf
wreccan ofer willan || gewat hyre west ðonan
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Word Form of the Day: ismahelumque

Number of occurrences in corpus: 1

Heptateuch Genesis 568: alamos Aegyptia ducitur Agar, / Ismahelumque nothum fecunda gignit ab aluo

Metre of the Day

Soul and Body I 1a

Bliss: Scansion: xxxxSx; Type: a1d
Sievers: Scansion: xxxx / x; Type: A3

Syntax: aV
Particle
Light Verse

Places with this scansion (bliss)

Other places with this scansion (sievers)