Exeter Riddle 37: Difference between revisions
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This is the 37th riddle from The Exeter Book.
Translation
I saw a creature with its stomach behind And greatly swollen. A servant grasped it, A mighty man, whose muscles laboured 'Til that which filled it flew from its eye. It did not die, disgorged of it contents Given to others, but got back again Health to its breast, Its breath hallowed. From its father it formed a son. Translation by Conrad Leviston.