Summary

Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book… (1963)

“ The first four lines give a free and fanciful picture of a tree; then by a conventional association the tree becomes the Cross. (See also the preceding riddle.) This solution was first proposed by F. A. Blackburn in JEGP iii (1900) , 4–7, and has been generally accepted with reservations about cup and harp. His translation is as follows:
I am agile of body, I sport with the breeze
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