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Riddle 55
Old English originals (Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records)
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Ic seah in healle, þær hæleð druncon, on flet beran feower cynna, wrætlic wudutreow ond wunden gold, sinc searobunden, ond seolfres dæl ond rode tacn, þæs us to roderum up hlædre rærde, ær he helwara burg abræce. Ic þæs beames mæg eaþe for eorlum æþelu secgan; þær wæs hlin ond acc ond se hearda iw ond se fealwa holen; frean sindon ealle nyt ætgædre, naman habbað anne, wulfheafedtreo, þæt oft wæpen abæd his mondryhtne, maðm in healle, goldhilted sweord. Nu me þisses gieddes
ondsware ywe, se hine on mede wordum secgan hu se wudu hatte.