The Old Ways

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Riddle 61

Old English originals (Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records)

Oft mec fæste bileac freolicu meowle, ides on earce, hwilum up ateah folmum sinum ond frean sealde, holdum þeodne, swa hio haten wæs. Siðþan me on hreþre heafod sticade, nioþan upweardne, on nearo fegde. Gif þæs ondfengan ellen dohte, mec frætwedne fyllan sceolde ruwes nathwæt. Ræd hwæt ic mæne.