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Riddle 70

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Wiht is wrætlic      þam þe hyre wisan ne conn.
Singeð þurh sidan.      Is se sweora woh,
orþoncum geworht;      hafaþ eaxle tua
scearp on gescyldrum.      His gesceapo dreogeð
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þe swa wrætlice      be wege stonde
heah ond hleortorht      hæleþum to nytte.