The Old Ways

Norse · Anglo-Saxon Poetry · 75 of 343

Riddle 34

Old English originals (Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records)

Ic wiht geseah in wera burgum, seo þæt feoh fedeð. Hafað fela toþa; nebb biþ hyre æt nytte, niþerweard gongeð, hiþeð holdlice ond to ham tyhð, wæþeð geond weallas, wyrte seceð; aa heo þa findeð, þa þe fæst ne biþ; læteð hio þa wlitigan, wyrtum fæste, stille stondan on staþolwonge, beorhte blican, blowan ond growan.