The Old Ways

Norse · Anglo-Saxon Poetry · 71 of 343

Riddle 30

Old English originals (Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records)

Ic eom legbysig, lace mid winde, bewunden mid wuldre, wedre gesomnad, fus forðweges, fyre gebysgad, bearu blowende, byrnende gled. Ful oft mec gesiþas sendað æfter hondum, þæt mec weras ond wif wlonce cyssað. þonne ic mec onhæbbe, ond hi onhnigaþ to me monige mid miltse, þær ic monnum sceal ycan upcyme eadignesse.