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Riddle 39
Verse Indeterminate Saxon


Gewritu secgað      þæt seo wiht sy
mid moncynne      miclum tidum
sweotol ond gesyne.      Sundorcræft hafað
maran micle,      þonne hit men witen.

5

Heo wile gesecan      sundor æghwylcne
feorhberendra,      gewiteð eft feran on weg.
Ne bið hio næfre      niht þær oþre,
ac hio sceal wideferh      wreccan laste
hamleas hweorfan;      no þy heanre biþ.

10

Ne hafað hio fot ne folme,      ne æfre foldan hran,
ne eagena      ægþer twega,
ne muð hafaþ,      ne wiþ monnum spræc,
ne gewit hafað,      ac gewritu secgað
þæt seo sy earmost      ealra wihta,

15

þara þe æfter gecyndum      cenned wære.
Ne hafað hio sawle ne feorh,      ac hio siþas sceal
geond þas wundorworuld      wide dreogan.
Ne hafaþ hio blod ne ban,      hwæþre bearnum wearð
geond þisne middangeard      mongum to frofre.

20

Næfre hio heofonum hran,      ne to helle mot,
ac hio sceal wideferh      wuldorcyninges
larum lifgan.      Long is to secganne
hu hyre ealdorgesceaft      æfter gongeð,
woh wyrda gesceapu;      þæt is wrætlic þing

25

to gesecganne.      Soð is æghwylc
þara þe ymb þas wiht      wordum becneð;
ne hafað heo ænig lim,      leofaþ efne seþeah.
Gif þu mæge reselan      recene gesecgan
soþum wordum,      saga hwæt hio hatte.




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