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OP Here's an Anglo-Saxon riddle (from the Exeter Book MS)? (Also a chance for some of you to see what English looked like back a thousand years or so.)
Ic on wincle gefrægn weaxan nathwæt,
þindan ond þunian, þecene hebban.
On þæt banlease bryd grapode,
hygewlonc hondum, hrægle þeahte
þrindende þing þeodnes dohtor.
I have heard of a thing, waxing in a corner,
swelling and standing up, raising its covering.
A proud woman seized that boneless thing with her hands;
the lord's daughter covered that swelling thing with her dress.
[translated by F. H. Whitman]
What is it?
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