The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
Riddle 33
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
Wiht cwom æfter wege wrætlicu liþan,
cymlic from ceole cleopode to londe,
hlinsade hlude; hleahtor wæs
gryrelic,
egesful on earde, ecge wæron scearpe.
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Wæs hio hetegrim, hilde to sæne,
biter beadoweorca; bordweallas grof,
heardhiþende. Heterune bond,
sægde searocræftig ymb hyre sylfre gesceaft:
"Is min modor mægða cynnes
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þæs deorestan, þæt is dohtor
min
eacen up liden, swa þæt is ældum
cuþ,
firum on folce, þæt seo on foldan sceal
on ealra londa gehwam lissum stondan."
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