Riddle 84
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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An wiht is on eorþan wundrum acenned,
hreoh ond reþe, hafað ryne strongne,
grimme grymetað ond be grunde fareð.
Modor is monigra mærra wihta.
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Fæger ferende fundað æfre;
neol is nearograp. Nænig oþrum mæg
wlite ond wisan wordum gecyþan,
hu mislic biþ mægen þara cynna,
fyrn forðgesceaft; fæder ealle bewat
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or ond ende, swylce an sunu,
mære meotudes bearn, þurh ...ed,
ond þæt hyhste mæge... ...es gæ...
dyre cræft...
......
...onne hy aweorp...
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...þe ænig þara
...fter ne mæg
oþer cynn eorþan
þon ær wæs
wlitig ond wynsum,
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Biþ sio moddor mægene eacen,
wundrum bewreþed, wistum gehladen,
hordum gehroden, hæleþum dyre.
Mægen bið gemiclad, meaht gesweotlad,
wlite biþ geweorþad wuldornyttingum,
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wynsum wuldorgimm wloncum getenge,
clængeorn bið ond cystig, cræfte eacen;
hio biþ eadgum leof, earmum getæse,
freolic, sellic; fromast ond swiþost,
gifrost ond grædgost grundbedd trideþ,
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þæs þe under lyfte aloden wurde
ond ælda bearn eagum sawe,
swa þæt wuldor wifeð, worldbearna mægen,
þeah þe ferþum gleaw
mon mode snottor mengo wundra.
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Hrusan bið heardra, hæleþum frodra,
geofum bið gearora, gimmum deorra;
worulde wlitigað, wæstmum tydreð,
firene dwæsceð,
oft utan beweorpeð anre þecene,
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wundrum gewlitegad, geond werþeode,
þæt wafiað weras ofer eorþan,
þæt magon micle ...sceafte.
Biþ stanum bestreþed, stormum
...len ...timbred weall,
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þrym... ...ed,
hrusan hrineð, h...
...etenge,
oft searwum biþ
deaðe ne feleð,
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þeah þe
...du hreren, hrif wundigen,
...risse.
Hordword onhlid, hæleþum ge...
...wreoh, wordum geopena,
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hu mislic sy mægen þara cy....