Riddles 5 University of Oxford CLASP Project nick.white@ell.ox.ac.uk https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/poem/A.3.22.5 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 5
wiga is on eorðan wundrum acenned dryhtum to nytte of dumbum twam torht atyhted ðone on teon wigeð feond his feonde forstrangne oft wif hine wrið he him wel hereð ðeowað him geðwære gif him ðegniað mægeð ond mæcgas mid gemete ryhte fedað hine fægre he him fremum stepeð life on lissum leanað grimme ðam ðe hine wloncne weorðan læteð