Riddles 26 University of Oxford CLASP Project nick.white@ell.ox.ac.uk https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/poem/A.3.22.26 Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Library of Congress Subject Headings English, Old (ca. 450-1100) Poems Riddles 26
mec feonda sum feore besnyðede woruldstrenga binom wætte siððan dyfde on wætre dyde eft ðonan sette on sunnan ðær ic swiðe beleas herum ðam ðe ic hæfde heard mec siððan snað seaxses ecg sindrum begrunden fingras feoldan ond mec fugles wyn geond speddropum spyrede geneahhe ofer brunne brerd beamtelge swealg streames dæle stop eft on mec siðade sweartlast mec siððan wrah hæleð hleobordum hyde beðenede gierede mec mid golde forðon me gliwedon wrætlic weorc smiða wire bifongen nu ða gereno ond se reada telg ond ða wuldorgesteald wide mære dryhtfolca helm nales dol wite gif min bearn wera brucan willað hy beoð ðy gesundran ond ðy sigefæstran heortum ðy hwætran ond ðy hygebliðran ferðe ðy frodran habbað freonda ðy ma swæsra ond gesibbra soðra ond godra tilra ond getreowra ða hyra tyr ond ead estum ycað ond hy arstafum lissum bilecgað ond hi lufan fæðmum fæste clyppað frige hwæt ic hatte niðum to nytte nama min is mære hæleðum gifre ond halig sylf