Riddles 84 University of Oxford CLASP Project nick.white@ell.ox.ac.uk https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/poem/A.3.34.84 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 84
an wiht is on eorðan wundrum acenned hreoh ond reðe hafað ryne strongne grimme grymetað ond be grunde fareð modor is monigra mærra wihta fæger ferende fundað æfre neol is nearograp nænig oðrum mæg wlite ond wisan wordum gecyðan hu mislic bið mægen ðara cynna fyrn forðgesceaft fæder ealle bewat or ond ende swylce an sunu mære meotudes bearn ðurh /ed ond ðæt hyhste mæge/ /es gæ/ dyre cræft/ // /onne hy aweorp/ /ðe ænig ðara /fter ne mæg oðer cynn eorðan ðon ær wæs wlitig ond wynsum bið sio moddor mægene eacen wundrum bewreðed wistum gehladen hordum gehroden hæleðum dyre mægen bið gemiclad meaht gesweotlad wlite bið geweorðad wuldornyttingum wynsum wuldorgimm wloncum getenge clængeorn bið ond cystig cræfte eacen hio bið eadgum leof earmum getæse freolic sellic fromast ond swiðost gifrost ond grædgost grundbedd trideð ðæs ðe under lyfte aloden wurde ond ælda bearn eagum sawe swa ðæt wuldor wifeð worldbearna mægen ðeah ðe ferðum gleaw mon mode snottor mengo wundra hrusan bið heardra hæleðum frodra geofum bið gearora gimmum deorra worulde wlitigað wæstmum tydreð firene dwæsceð oft utan beweorpeð anre ðecene wundrum gewlitegad geond werðeode ðæt wafiað weras ofer eorðan ðæt magon micle /sceafte bið stanum bestreðed stormum /len /timbred weall ðrym/ /ed hrusan hrineð h/ /etenge oft searwum bið deaðe ne feleð ðeah ðe /du hreren hrif wundigen /risse hordword onhlid hæleðum ge/ /wreoh wordum geopena hu mislic sy mægen ðara cy/