Exeter Book Riddle 25 (Text)

Old English Reading 1

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📜 Exeter Book Riddle 25

The Old English only, with no gloss or translation. Read in Old English Reading 1, Chapter 7. Download as a .txt file.

Source and licence Wikipedia, Exeter Book, section "Riddles", Riddle 25 as printed there; the article cites Marsden (2015), The Cambridge Old English Reader. The dot marks the half-line break. Wikipedia text is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. The riddle is a medieval text.

The text

Ic eom wunderlicu wiht · wifum on hyhte

neahbuendum nyt; · nægum sceþþe

burgsittendra nymthe · bonan anum.

Staþol min is steapheah · stonde ic on bedde

neoðan ruh nathwær. · Neþeð hwilum

ful cyrtenu · ceorles dohtor

modwlonc meowle · þæt heo on mec gripe

ræseð mec on reodne · reafath min heafod

fegeð mec on fæsten. · Feleþ sona

mines gemotes · seo þe mec nearwað

wif wundenlocc. · Wæt bið þæt eage.

Note The full stops and half-line dots are the editor's. I do not know whether these eleven lines are the whole riddle.