Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book/Annotated/86

86 (k-d 71)

I am a strong man’s property     clothed in red [gold?]. My place was first     the hard steep ground with fair bright herbs.     Now I am the leavings of harsh things, the fire and the file.     I am closely constrained and honored with wires.     He sometimes weeps, the bearer of gold,     because of my grasp when I shall ravage …

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Ic eom rices æht     reade bewæfed stið ⁊ steapwong     staþol wæs Iu þa wyrta wlitetorhtra     nu eom wraþra laf fyres ⁊ feole     fæste genearwad wire geweorþad     wepeð hwilum for minum gripe     se þe gold wigeð · þōn ic yþan sceal     […]fe hringum gehyrsted     me bi[…] […]go[…]dryhtne     min[…] […]wlite bete