iddle 35

Ic þa wihte geseah--      womb wæs on hindan

 

I saw a creature with its belly behind

 

þriþum aþrunten.   Þ¦egn folgade,

 

Huge and swollen, handled by a servant,

 

mægenrofa man,      ond micel hæfde

 

A hard, muscled man who struggled so

 

gefered þæt hit felde,      fleah þurh his eage.

 

That the bulge in its belly burst through its eye:

 

Ne swylteð he symle,      þonne syllan sceal

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Its passion--gorge and spill through death,

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innað þam oþrum,      ac him eft cymeð

 

Then rise and fill with second breath

 

bot in bosme,      blæd biþ aræred;

 

To sire a son and father self.

 

He sunu wyrceð,     bið him sylfa fæder.

     

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