< Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book < Annotated
74 (k-d 25)
| I’m a wonderful thing, a joy to women, to neighbors useful. I injure no one who lives in a village save only my slayer. I stand up high and steep over the bed; underneath I’m shaggy. Sometimes ventures a young and handsome peasant’s daughter, a maiden proud, to lay hold on me. She seizes me, red, plunders my head, fixes on me fast, feels straightway what meeting me means when she thus approaches, a curly-haired woman. Wet is that eye. |
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Ic eom wunderlicu wiht wifum on hyhte neahbuendū nyt nængum sceþþe burgsittendra nymþe bonan anum staþol min is steapheah stonde ic on bedde neoþan ruh nathwær neþeð · hwilum ful cyrtenu · ceorles dohtor modwlonc meowle ꝥ heo on mec gripeð ræseð mec on reodne reafað min heafod fegeð mec on fæsten feleþ sona mines gemotes seþe mec nearwað wif wundēn locc wæt bið þæt eage. |
The pretended answer is Onion. Compare 39 (k-d 65), which is Onion only.
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