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Riddle 50
Old English originals (Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records)
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Wiga is on eorþan wundrum acenned dryhtum to nytte, of dumbum twam torht atyhted, þone on teon wigeð feond his feonde. Forstrangne oft wif hine wrið; he him wel hereð, þeowaþ him geþwære, gif him þegniað mægeð ond mæcgas mid gemete ryhte, fedað hine fægre; he him fremum stepeð life on lissum. Leanað grimme þam þe hine wloncne weorþan læteð.