“Ship.” [a substitute cypher system encodes the words “man,” “wife” and “horse” in line 5. I have not read the letters aloud].
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“Mail coat.” [Note this is also the famous “Leiden Riddle,” found appended to a collection of Aldhelm’s Latin riddles. Both are translations of Aldhelm’s Riddle 33: “Lorica.” ] Podcast: Play in new window | Download “Iceberg.” Podcast: Play in new window | Download “Bagpipe.” (possibly “organ”). Another sexual riddle. Podcast: Play in new window | Download “Moon and sun” or “bird and wind” (or even, maybe, “cloud and wind”). Podcast: Play in new window | Download “Harp” or, perhaps, “Beer,” though the “some kind of stringed instrument” answer is the most probable. Podcast: Play in new window | Download “Book.” (Probably “Gospel Book,” but it could be another religious book). Podcast: Play in new window | Download “Onion.” One of the sexual riddles. Podcast: Play in new window | Download “Jay” or “Magpie.” This riddle also has runic clues. Podcast: Play in new window | Download “Bow.” Runes are arranged in an anagram, and for this riddle scholars are generally in agreement as to how they should be unscrambled (simply reversed): “agof” to “foga” and then transforming the “f” to “b” to produce “boga.” Podcast: Play in new window | Download “Month” (counting 60 “half-days”) or “bridge.” Podcast: Play in new window | Download |
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