Riddle 25

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.