The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
Riddle 53
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
Ic seah on bearwe beam hlifian,
tanum torhtne. þæt treow wæs on wynne,
wudu weaxende. Wæter hine ond eorþe
feddan fægre, oþþæt he frod
dagum
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on oþrum wearð aglachade
deope gedolgod, dumb in bendum,
wriþen ofer wunda, wonnum hyrstum
foran gefrætwed. Nu he fæcnum weg
þurh his heafdes mægen
hildegieste
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oþrum rymeð. Oft hy an yste
strudon
hord ætgædre; hræd wæs ond
unlæt
se æftera, gif se ærra fær
genamnan in nearowe neþan moste.
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