Arts & Sciences
Riddle 85 (Old English)
From The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, ed. Krapp and Dobbie, vol. III (1936)
Arts & Sciences
Nis min sele swige, ne ic sylfa hlud
ymb ...... unc dryhten scop
siþ ætsomne. Ic eom swiftre þonne he,
þragum strengra, he þreohtigra.
Hwilum ic me reste; he sceal yrnan forð.
Ic him in wunige a þenden ic lifge;
gif wit unc gedælað, me bið deað witod.
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Anonymous (Old English). “Riddle 85 (Old English).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-old-english/167/.
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