Source:
"Riddle | 47." The Exeter Book. Eds. George Philip Krapp and Elliott van Kirk Dobbie. New York, N.Y. Columbia University Press, 1936. 205 |
1 | Moððe word fræt. Me þæt þuhte |
2 | wrætlicu wyrd, þa ic þæt wundor gefrægn, |
3 | þæt se wyrm forswealg wera gied sumes, |
4 | þeof in þystro, þrymfæstne cwide |
5 | ond þæs strangan staþol. Stælgiest ne wæs |
6 | wihte þy gleawra, þe he þam wordum swealg. |