Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book/Annotated/36

36 (k-d 81)

I have a puffed-out breast     and a swollen neck; I have a head     and a tall tail; I have eyes and ears     and a single foot, a rough hard bill     and a long neck and two sides;     hollow in the middle. My home is over men.     I suffer much whenever he moves me     who stirs the forest, and rains and hard hail     beat on me as I stand, and frost freezes     and snow falls on me, hollow-bellied     . . . .

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Ic eom by led breost     belecedsweora heafod hæbbe     ⁊ heane steort eagan ⁊ earan     ⁊ ænne fōot hrycg ⁊ heard nebb     hneccan steapne ⁊ sidan twa     sag on middum eard ofer ældū     aglac dreoge þær mec wegeð     se þe wudu hrereð ⁊ mec stondende     streamas beatað hægl se hearda     ⁊ hrim þeceð […]orst […]eoseð     ⁊ fealleð snaw on þyrelwombne;     ⁊ ic þæt […]ol[…] […] mæ[…]     wonsceaft mine

Weathercock.