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Riddle 45

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Ic on wincle gefrægn      weaxan nathwæt,
þindan ond þunian,      þecene hebban;
on þæt banlease      bryd grapode,
hygewlonc hondum,      hrægle þeahte
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þrindende þing      þeodnes dohtor.