Exeter Riddle 78

MEGANCAVELL

Date: Sun 18 Mar 2018
Matching Commentaries: Commentary for Exeter Riddle 78

Riddle 78 is a bit of a super-damaged mess…wish me luck writing the commentary!



Original text:

Oft ic flodas…
…s         cynn… minum
ond…
…yde me to mos…
…swa ic him…
…ne æt ham gesæt
…flote cwealde
þurh orþonc…         yþum bewrigene.

Translation:

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.

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Crab, Oyster, Fish, Lamprey


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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