Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book/Annotated/64
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64 (k-d 46)
He sat at his wine with his two wives and his two sons and his two daughters, the beloved sisters, and their two sons, goodly first born. The father of each of these noble ones was there and there also an uncle and a nephew. Five in all, men and women, were sitting together. |
Wær sæt æt wine mid his wifum · twam ⁊ his twegen suno ⁊ his twa dohtor swase gesweostor ⁊ hyre suno twegen freolico frumbearn fæder wæs þær Inne þara æþelinga æghwæðres mid eam ⁊ nefa ealra wæron fife eorla ⁊ idesa Insittendra |