Riddle 32 — Anglo-Saxon Poetry (Old English originals (Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records))

Is þes middangeard missenlicum wisum gewlitegad, wrættum gefrætwad. Siþum sellic ic seah searo hweorfan, grindan wið greote, giellende faran. Næfde sellicu wiht syne ne folme, exle ne earmas; sceal on anum fet searoceap swifan, swiþe feran, faran ofer feldas. Hæfde fela ribba; muð wæs on middan. Moncynne nyt, fereð foddurwelan, folcscipe dreogeð, wist in wigeð, ond werum gieldeð gaful geara gehwam þæs þe guman brucað, rice ond heane. Rece, gif þu cunne, wis worda gleaw, hwæt sio wiht sie.