Aldhelm Riddle 50: Myrifyllon
ALEXANDRAREIDER
Date: Tue 15 Mar 2022Original text:
Prorsus Achivorum lingua pariterque Latina
Mille vocor viridi folium de cespite natum.
Idcirco decies centenum nomen habebo,
Cauliculis florens quoniam sic nulla frutescit
Herba per innumeros telluris limite sulcos.
Translation:
In the language of the Greeks and likewise in Latin
I am straightforwardly called “thousand-leaf,” born from the green field.
For this reason I shall have my hundred-fold name ten times,
Since, blooming on its stalk, no plant shoots up on a path thus
Among the innumerable furrows of the earth.
Milfoil
Notes:
This edition is based on Rudolf Ehwald, ed. Aldhelmi Opera Omnia. Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Auctores Antiquissimi, 15. Berlin: Weidmann, 1919, pages 59-150. Available online here.
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