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ID
https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/poem/N.Aenig.Octo
Title
Octosyllabic Riddle
Language
Latin
Rhyme
mostly bisyllabic
Edited
ASPR 3, p. 240, no. 90; C. Williamson, The Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book (Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1977), pp. 23-5, and A Feast of Creatures: Anglo-Saxon Riddle Songs (London: Scolar, 1983), pp. 7-8
Listed
ICL no. 9685
Metre
octosyllabic line; trochaic clausula
MSS
The Exeter Book
Bibliography
  • L. Whitbread, N & Q 190 (1946), pp. 156-8; 194 (1949), pp. 80-2
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N.Aenig.Octo

N.Aenig.Octo 1. Mirum mihi [nunc] uidetur Mirum mihi [nunc] uidetur
N.Aenig.Octo 2. Lupus ab agno tenetur; Lupus ab agno tenetur;
N.Aenig.Octo 3. Obcu[mb]it agnus [sub rupi] Occu[mb]it agnus [sub rupi]
N.Aenig.Octo 4. Et capit uiscera lupi. Et capit uiscera lupi.
N.Aenig.Octo 5. Dum starem [atque] mirarem Dum starem [atque] mirarem
N.Aenig.Octo 6. Vidi gloriam [tam] magnam: Vidi gloriam [tam] magnam:
N.Aenig.Octo 7. Duo lupi [errant] stantes Duo lupi [errant] stantes
N.Aenig.Octo 8. Et tertium tribulantes; Et tertium tribulantes;
N.Aenig.Octo 9. Quattuor pedes habebant, Quattuor pedes habebant,
N.Aenig.Octo 10. Septem oculis uidebant. Septem oculis uidebant.