Arts & Sciences

Riddle 72 (Old English)

by Anonymous (Old English) c. 7th–11th century

From The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, ed. Krapp and Dobbie, vol. III (1936)

Arts & Sciences

Ic wæs lytel
fo...
...te geaf
...pe þe unc gemæne
sweostor min,
fedde mec ...... oft ic feower teah
swæse broþor, þara onsundran gehwylc
dægtidum me drincan sealde
þurh þyrel þearle. Ic þæh on lust,
oþþæt ic wæs yldra ond þæt an forlet
sweartum hyrde, siþade widdor,
mearcpaþas Walas træd, moras pæðde,
bunden under beame, beag hæfde on healse,
wean on laste weorc þrowade,
earfoða dæl. Oft mec isern scod
sare on sidan; ic swigade,
næfre meldade monna ængum
gif me ordstæpe egle wæron.

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Old English text as in ASPR; hand-keyed e-text via sacred-texts.com.

MLA

Anonymous (Old English). “Riddle 72 (Old English).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-old-english/154/.

Chicago

Anonymous (Old English). “Riddle 72 (Old English).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-old-english/154/.

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