I've been working at this on and off for half an hour and am still none the wiser. How about I ask one? 'What have I got in my pocket?' [Clue: it's not the Ring of Power].
It's my version of a riddle from the Old Norse poem Alvissmal :
THOR: ‘Tell me this, All-wise—I foresee, dwarf, that you know all the fates of men— what the wind is called, which blows so widely, in each of the worlds.’
ALVISS: ‘Wind it’s called among men, the waverer by the gods, the mighty Powers say neigher; whooper the giants, din-journeyer the elves, in hell they call it stormer.’
I've been working at this on and off for half an hour and am still none the wiser. How about I ask one? 'What have I got in my pocket?' [Clue: it's not the Ring of Power].
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ReplyDeleteIt's my version of a riddle from the Old Norse poem Alvissmal :
ReplyDeleteTHOR: ‘Tell me this, All-wise—I foresee, dwarf,
that you know all the fates of men—
what the wind is called, which blows so widely,
in each of the worlds.’
ALVISS: ‘Wind it’s called among men, the waverer by the gods,
the mighty Powers say neigher;
whooper the giants, din-journeyer the elves,
in hell they call it stormer.’
'Alviss' is a name that means 'All Wise'.
I will not eat you tonight.
ReplyDeleteCoincidentally I do hear echoes of Tolkien, or rather predecessors.
ReplyDeleteAs for unravelling the riddle, I can see that my lack of knowledge concerning the 'mighty Powers' and their name for the wind sealed my fate.