Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book/Annotated/90

90 (k-d 92)

I was the boast of brown [things],     a tree in the forest, a fine living thing     and a fruit of the field, a foundation of joy,     a woman’s message, gold in the homes.     Now I am a warrior’s happy weapon     with a ring …

Ic wæs brunra beot     beam on holte · freolic feorhbora     ⁊ foldan wæstm wym staþol     ⁊ wifes sond · gold on geardum     nu eom guðwigan hyhtlic hildewæpen     hringe be[…] […]e[…] byreð oþrum […]

The rest is lost. Supposedly Beech tree (the brown things are swine, which eat beech-mast) and Book, then a treasure or treasured message, and finally a weapon.