Page:Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book (1963).djvu/89

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    1. s88 ##

88 (K-D 82)

Probably six lines, from which a dozen words remain.

 

    1. s89 ##

89 (K-D 89)

Probably ten lines, from which some twenty words remain.

 

    1. s90 ##

90 (K-D 92)

I was the boast of brown [things],    a tree in the forest,
a fine living thing    and a fruit of the field,
a foundation of joy,    a woman’s message,
gold in the homes.    Now I am a warrior’s
happy weapon    with a ring …

The rest is lost. Supposedly Beech tree (the brown things are swine, which eat beech-mast) and Book, then a treasure or treasured message, and finally a weapon.

    1. s91 ##

91 (K-D 94)

Smith …
higher than heaven …
                    … than the sun
. . . .    . . .
sharper than salt …
dearer than all this light,    brighter than …