Arts & Sciences
Riddle 47 (Old English)
From The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, ed. Krapp and Dobbie, vol. III (1936)
Arts & Sciences
Moððe word fræt. Me þæt þuhte
wrætlicu wyrd, þa ic þæt wundor gefrægn,
þæt se wyrm forswealg wera gied sumes,
þeof in þystro, þrymfæstne cwide
ond þæs strangan staþol. Stælgiest ne wæs
wihte þy gleawra, þe he þam wordum swealg.
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Old English text as in ASPR; hand-keyed e-text via sacred-texts.com.
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Anonymous (Old English). “Riddle 47 (Old English).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-old-english/118/.
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Anonymous (Old English). “Riddle 47 (Old English).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-old-english/118/.
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