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Riddle 70
Translated by Benjamin Thorpe (1842) · From Exeter Book Riddles (selection)
The thing is curious
to those who its ways know not,
it sings through its side,
the neck is crooked,
cunningly wrought ;
it has two shoulders,
is sharp on the blade-bones ;
its form
so curiously
in your way stands,
high and bright of countenance,
for use to men.
Codex Note
Thorpe's Riddle IX (third series, pp. 479–500, in his Codex Exoniensis, 1842); ASPR Riddle 70.
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Anonymous (Old English). “Riddle 70.” Translated by Benjamin Thorpe. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-old-english/286/.
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Anonymous (Old English). “Riddle 70.” Translated by Benjamin Thorpe. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-old-english/286/.
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