Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book/Annotated/12

12 (k-d 66)

I am greater     than all this world is, less than the handworm,     brighter than the moon, swifter than the sun.     All seas and waters are in my embraces,     and the bosom of earth and the green fields.     I reach to the ground, I descend below hell,     I rise above the heavens, the land of glory.     I extend far over the home of angels.     I fill the earth, the whole wide world     and the ocean currents, all by myself.     Say what my name is.

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Ic eom mare     þōn þes mindan geard læsse þōn hond · wyrm     leohtre þonne mona swiftre þōn sunne sæs me sind ealle flodas on fæðmum     ⁊ þas foldan bearm grene wongas     grundum ic hrine helle underhnige     heofonas oferstige wuldres eþel     wide ræce ofer engla eard     eorþan gefylle ealdne middangeard     ⁊ merestreamas side mid me sylfum     saga hwæt ic hatte

This is plainly a condensed version of the preceding riddle, Creation.