Riddles 50 University of Oxford CLASP Project nick.white@ell.ox.ac.uk https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/poem/A.3.22.50 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 50
Wiga is on eorþan wundrum acenned dryhtum to nytte, of dumbum twam torht atyhted, þone on teon wigeð feond his feonde. Forstrangne oft wif hine wrið; he him wel hereð, þeowaþ him geþwære, gif him þegniað mægeð ond mæcgas mid gemete ryhte, fedað hine fægre; he him fremum stepeð life on lissum. Leanað grimme þam þe hine wloncne weorþan læteð.