A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

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Poem of the Day: N.Medic.Aenig

Dic duo que faciunt pronomina nomina cunctis;
omnia dic que sunt uerbi, que silliba signet:
quid mininga, cimus, crassis? quid sterea, colis?
quid ris quidue farinx, nistis? quid glossa, geosis?
quid flebs, hota, nefron, cistis, thessis, anathossis?
quid trix, derma, pisis, neutis, hacmen, diliponta,
auxitis, gemoni, tacui, satrex, cacohesis?
ipsa quidem sed non eadem que te ipsa nec ipsa?
sinon exposueris, indonatus abibis!

Word Form of the Day: tilra

Number of occurrences in corpus: 2

The Whale 34b: icað / ond on teosu tyhtað || tilra dæda / wemað on willan || ð
Riddles 26 23a: gesibbra || soðra ond godra / tilra ond getreowra || ða hyra tyr

Metre of the Day

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

Syntax: iN
Light Verse

Places with this scansion (bliss)

Other places with this scansion (sievers)