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From: barth@tellab1.UUCP (Barth Richards)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: a riddle
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Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 14:15:14 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 13 14:15:14 1985
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Reply-To: barth@tellab3.UUCP (Barth Richards)
Organization: Tellabs, Inc., Lisle, IL
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Keywords: riddle, turtles

I came across this in a book of Anglo-Saxon poetry:


                    aenne raedels

            Wraetlic hongath bi weres theo,
            frean under sceat.  Foran is thyrel.
            Bith stith ond heard, stede hafath godne;
            thonne se esne his agen hraegl
            ofer cneo hefeth, wile thaet cuthe hol
            mid his hangellan heafde gretan
            thaet he efenlang aer oft gefylde.


for those of you not fluent in Old English
(I'm sure that there are a few of you out there):


		    a riddle

            A wonderful thing hangs by a man's thigh,
            And is lord under his cloak.  Before it is a hole.
            The thing is stiff and hard, is held stable.
            Then the man lifts his cloak
            Over his knee, and with the hanging thing's head
            Will attack that familiar hole that he
            Has often filled to equal length before.


Send the correct answer to me by email and become a member of The Turtles of
The Round Table (or is that The Knights of The Round Turtle?)

(That's a clue, ya know.)

I'll post the correct and/or most imaginative answer when I feel like it.



				       Barth Richards
				       Tellabs, Inc.
				       Lisle, IL

				       "Ford, do you realize that robot
					can hum like Pink Floyd?"
                                       -Arthur Dent