Do you know what the riddle is talking about?
Answer in the first comment ๐
The exeter book of riddles offers a variety of spicy and fun riddles, we solved two of them in earlier posts. Wikisource offers a translation where you find all of them for your next party-conversations ๐
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1/2 This lyrical call to non-monogamy was written by William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony and Count of Poitou and btw. the grandfather of famous Eleanore of Aquitaine.
Next to working politics and going on crusade, he was also a poet. Only a handfull of his poems survived.
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Okay, I just realized how weirdly esoteric and utterly random that rant is. So, context: #MiddleEnglish #Medieval #Poetry #MedievalPoetry
And all three, wannen, winen, and wonnen, have orthographic examples as won(n)en.
If wannen is used, the phrase reads: "and grow livid that these wasters, with gluttony, destroy [their product].
If winen, the phrase reads "and suffer that these wasters, with gluttony, destroy [their product]."
nerdy armchair pedantry.
An annual tradition when travelling between Christmas and the New Year: listening to Simon Armitage reading his Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translation.
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