As the synchrontron hums, Michael Wood read it out on his broadcast on
Saturday. Along with translation and answer. You just never know what
you'll find when you flip over a beer-mat do you? My riddle, that.
On 4 June 2012 21:43, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks Davey
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of David Bircumshaw
> Sent: 04 June 2012 18:43
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: riddle
>
> Ic eom wunderlicu wiht wifum on hyhte
> neahbuendum nyt; nægum sceþþe
> burgsittendra nymthe bonan anum.
> Staþol min is steapheah stonde ic on bedde neoðan ruh nathwær. Neþeð hwilum
> ful cyrtenu ceorles dohtor modwlonc meowle þæt heo on mec gripe ræseð mec
> on
> reodne reafath min heafod fegeð mec on fæsten. Feleþ sona mines gemotes seo
> þe mec nearwað wif wundenlocc. Wæt bið þæt eage.
>
> On 4 June 2012 17:21, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > I cheated looked it up -quite impossible!!!
> > Here's another
> >
> > I'm the world's wonder, for I make women happy
> > - a boon to the neighbourhood, a bane to no one, though I may perhaps
> > prick the one who picks me.
> >
> > I am set well up, stand in a bed,
> > have a roughish root. Rarely (though it happens) a churl's daughter
> > more daring than the rest
> > - and lovelier! - lays hold of me,
> > rushes my red top, wrenches at my head, and lays me in the larder.
> > She learns soon enough, the
> > curly-haired creature who clamps me so, of my meeting with her: moist
> > is her eye!
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > On Behalf Of Halvard Johnson
> > Sent: 04 June 2012 17:02
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: riddle
> >
> > Loved that book. Maybe even still have it . . . somewhere or other.
> >
> >
> > Serving the tri-state area.
> >
> > Hal
> >
> > Halvard Johnson
> > ================
> >
> > [log in to unmask]
> >
> > On Barcelona <http://onbarcelona.blogspot.com/> (submissions sought;
> > email to my address above)
> > Truck: http://halvard-johnson.blogspot.mx/
> > http://sites.google.com/site/halvardjohnson/Home
> > http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
> > http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
> > http://www.hamiltonstone.org
> > <http://www.hamiltonstone.org/>
> > https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/
> > <http://www.hamiltonstone.org/>
> > Remains To Be Seen <https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/>*,
> > Remains To Be Seen (Vol. II)
> > <https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/>,**
> > Remains To Be Seen (Vol. III) <
> > https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/>, *Sonnets from the
> > Basque & Other Poems <https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/>
> > *, *Mainly Black <https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/>,
> > *Obras P blicas <https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/>; **The
> > Perfection of Mozart's Third Eye and Other Sonnets<
> > http://www.scribd.com/doc/27039868/Halvard-Johnson-THE-PERFECTION-OF-M
> > OZART-S-THIRD-EYE-Other-Sonnets
> > >
> > ; **Organ Harvest with Entrance of
> > Clones<
> > http://www.amazon.com/Harvest-Entrance-Clones-Halvard-Johnson/dp/09654
> > 04390/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1283182804&sr=8-1
> > >
> > ; **Tango Bouquet <https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/>;
> > **Theory of Harmony<
> > https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/fal
> > l04/theory1.pdf
> > >
> > ; **Rapsodie espagnole<
> > https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/rap
> > sodi.pdf
> > >
> > ; **Guide to the Tokyo
> > Subway<
> > http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Tokyo-Subway-Other-Poems/dp/0971487316/ref
> > =sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1283183153&sr=1-3
> > >
> > ; **The Sonnet Project<
> > https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/hso
> > nnet.pdf
> > >
> > ; **G(e)nome <http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/fall03/genome.pdf>;
> > **Winter Journey <http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.winter.html>;
> > **Eclipse<http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.eclipse.html>
> > ; **The Dance of the Red Swan
> > <http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.dance.html
> > >
> > ; **Transparencies & Projections<
> > http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.transp.html>
> > *
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I found this whilst surfing through BAP's blog. Thought we might
> > > like to put our collective heads together - although I'm off to bed
> now.
> > > Night all
> > > - I leave you with a riddle ::
> > >
> > > A Riddle from "The Earliest English Poems"
> > >
> > > Many were met, men of discretion,
> > > wisdom and wit, when in there walked. . .
> > >
> > > Two ears it had, and one eye solo,
> > > two feet and twelve hundred heads,
> > > back, belly, a brace of hands
> > > a pair of sides and shoulders and arms and one neck. Name, please.
> > >
> > > --Translated by Michael Alexander:
> > >
> > > --
> > > Andrew
> > > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> > > poetryetc
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> David Joseph Bircumshaw
> "We are shallow, mababaw ang kaligayahan."
> -* F. Sionil José*
> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
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>
--
David Joseph Bircumshaw
"We are shallow, mababaw ang kaligayahan."
-* F. Sionil José*
Website and A Chide's Alphabet
http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
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