The Old Ways

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Riddle 70

Old English originals (Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records)

Wiht is wrætlic þam þe hyre wisan ne conn. Singeð þurh sidan. Is se sweora woh, orþoncum geworht; hafaþ eaxle tua scearp on gescyldrum. His gesceapo dreogeð þe swa wrætlice be wege stonde heah ond hleortorht hæleþum to nytte.