Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book/Annotated/91

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Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book (1963)
translated by Paull Franklin Baum
1190469Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book1963Paull Franklin Baum

91 (k-d 94)


Smith …
higher than heaven …
                              … than the sun
. . . .     . . .
sharper than salt …
dearer than all this light,     brighter than …
Smeþr[…]ad
hyrre þōn heofon
[…]
[…]     glædre þōn sunne ·
[…]style
smeare þōn sealt ry
[…]
leofre þōn þis leoht eall     leohtre þon w[…]