Exeter Riddles 75 and 76
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Date: Sun 18 Mar 2018Matching Commentaries: Commentary for Exeter Riddles 75 and 76
It’s another two-for-one this week! Most editors treat the first two lines as one riddle, and the third as a seperate riddle. Krapp and Dobbie are among them. Others, including Craig Williamson, edit this as a single poem. Also there are runes, so scroll down for a screenshot if you can't see them. Enjoy…
Ic swiftne geseah on swaþe feran
.ᛞ ᚾ ᛚ ᚻ.
[Riddle 76] Ic ane geseah idese sittan.
I saw a swift one travel on the way
.d n l h.
[Riddle 76] I saw a woman sit alone.
Notes:
This riddle appears on folio 127r of The Exeter Book.
The above Old English text is based on this edition: Elliott van Kirk Dobbie and George Philip Krapp, eds, The Exeter Book, Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records 3 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1936), page 234.
Note that this edition numbers the text Riddle 73: Craig Williamson, ed., The Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1977), page 110.
Screen shot for the runes:
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