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.

Poem: ‘Three poems’

Miller Oberman, 5 January 2017

Riddle 78

Often I [            ] floods [            ] [        ] a kind of [    ] minnows and...

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