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Riddle 95

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Ic eom indryhten      ond eorlum cuð,
ond reste oft;      ricum ond heanum,
folcum gefræge      fere wide,
ond me fremdes ær      freondum stondeð
5
hiþendra hyht,      gif ic habban sceal
blæd in burgum      oþþe beorhtne god.
Nu snottre men      swiþast lufiaþ
midwist mine;      ic monigum sceal
wisdom cyþan;      no þær word sprecað
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ænig ofer eorðan.      þeah nu ælda bearn
londbuendra      lastas mine
swiþe secað,      ic swaþe hwilum
mine bemiþe      monna gehwylcum.