Source:
"Riddle | 25." The Exeter Book. Eds. George Philip Krapp and Elliott van Kirk Dobbie. The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, vol. 3. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 1936. 193. |
1 | Ic eom wunderlicu wiht, wifum on hyhte, |
2 | neahbuendum nyt; nængum sceþþe |
3 | burgsittendra, nymþe bonan anum. |
4 | Staþol min is steapheah, stonde ic on bedde, |
5 | neoþan ruh nathwær. Neþeð hwilum |
6 | ful cyrtenu ceorles dohtor, |
7 | modwlonc meowle, þæt heo on mec gripeð, |
8 | ræseð mec on reodne, reafað min heafod, |
9 | fegeð mec on fæsten. Feleþ sona |
10 | mines gemotes, seo þe mec nearwað, |
11 | wif wundenlocc. Wæt bið þæt eage. |