I protect my hearth, my hoard and my home, surrounded by strands and filled within with excellent treasures. Often by day I spit abroad the terror of spears. My success is the greater the more I am filled. My master sees this, how darts fly from within me. Sometimes I swallow the swart dark weapons, the poisoned darts. My entrails are good, precious to warriors, the hoard that I hold. Many remember what goes through my mouth.
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Ic eom mundbora minre heorde eodor wirum fæst innan gefylled dryhtgestreona dægtidum oft spæte sperebrogan sped biþ þy mare fylle minre freo þæt bihealdeð hu me of hrife fleogað hyldepilas hwilum ic sweartum swelgan onginne brunum beadowæpnum bitrum ordum eglum attorsperum. is min innað til · wombhord wlitig wloncū deore men gemunan þæt me þurh muþ fareð
The manuscript has above this the rune for B, either for Burg, ‘town,’ or for Ballista. If the former, the answer is a Town defended by its inhabitants. Above the rune for B, moreover, is the rune for L, and this points to Ballista, an engine for throwing missiles, as the solution, favored by recent editors. Since both answers would fit, the ambiguity is probably intentional, to promote argument.