Poem: ‘Three poems’
Miller Oberman, 5 January 2017
Riddle 78
Often I [ ] floods [ ] [ ] a kind of [ ] minnows and...
Miller Oberman
Miller Oberman’s ‘Riddle 78’ and ‘Riddle 82’ are translations from the tenth-century Exeter Book (the brackets indicate text that is unreadable in the folios). ‘Riddle 97’ is his own creation.
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