Riddle 18

Exeter Book

Riddle 18 – Translation

I am a wonderful creature, I cannot speak words,
nor converse with men, though I have a mouth,
and a broad belly.
I was on a ship with more of my kind.

Cask, Jug

Further Research & Sources

Bosworth Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary online – https://bosworthtoller.com/

Elliott van Kirk Dobbie and George Philip Krapp, eds, The Exeter Book, Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records 3 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1936).

Richardson, John, trans. The Exeter Book: The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records in Modern Verse, Vol. 3. 2022.

Williamson, Craig, ed. The Old English Riddles of The Exeter Book. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1977.

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