Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book/Annotated/30
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30 (k-d 77)
| The sea fed me; the water-helm was over me, and waves covered me, close to the ground. I was footless. Often toward the water I opened my mouth. Now people will eat my meat. They want not my skin. When they rip my hide with the point of a knife . . . . . . . . . Then they eat me uncooked. . . . |
Se me fedde sundhelm þeahte ⁊ mec yþa wrugon eorþan getenge feþelease oft ic flode ongean muð ontynde nu wile monna sum min flæsc fretan felles ne recceð siþþan he me of sidan seaxes orde hyd arypeð […]ec hr[…]þe siþþan iteð unsodene ea[…]d. |