Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book/Annotated/86

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Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book (1963)
translated by Paull Franklin Baum

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86 (k-d 71)

I am a strong man’s property     clothed in red [gold?].
My place was first     the hard steep ground
with fair bright herbs.     Now I am the leavings of harsh things,
the fire and the file.     I am closely constrained
and honored with wires.     He sometimes weeps,
the bearer of gold,     because of my grasp
when I shall ravage …

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Ic eom rices æht     reade bewæfed
stið ⁊ steapwong     staþol wæs Iu þa
wyrta wlitetorhtra     nu eom wraþra laf
fyres ⁊ feole     fæste genearwad
wire geweorþad     wepeð hwilum
for minum gripe     se þe gold wigeð ·
þōn ic yþan sceal     […]fe
hringum gehyrsted     me bi[…]
[…]go[…]dryhtne     min[…]
[…]wlite bete