Exeter Riddle 78
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Date: Sun 18 Mar 2018Matching Commentaries: Commentary for Exeter Riddle 78
Riddle 78 is a bit of a super-damaged mess…wish me luck writing the commentary!
Oft ic flodas…
…s cynn… minum
ond…
…yde me to mos…
…swa ic him…
…ne æt ham gesæt
…flote cwealde
þurh orþonc… yþum bewrigene.
Often I … floods
… to my kin
and …
… had as food for me
… so I … to it/him/them
… did not sit at home
… killed floating
with cunning … concealed by the waves.
Notes:
This riddle appears on folio 127r of The Exeter Book.
The above Old English text is based on this edition: Elliott van Kirk Dobbie and George Philip Krapp, eds, The Exeter Book, Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records 3 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1936), pages 234-5.
Note that this edition numbers the text Riddle 75: Craig Williamson, ed., The Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1977), page 110.
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