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Famous riddle's of Gestumblindi from the saga of Hervor king: The Riddles Of Gestumblindi Scandinavia 1. Q: I want to have what I had yesterday-- work out what that was: the mind-whacker, the word-thwarter and word up-raiser. King Heidrek, guess my riddle. 2. Q: From home I went, from home I made my way, I saw a road of roads, and a road under them, and a road over them, and a road on all sides. King Heidrek, guess my riddle. 3. Q: What is that drink I drank yesterday? It wasn't wine or water; not ale either nor any food, yet I left released from thirst. Heidrek King, think on that. 4. Q: Who is that shrill one, who rides a hard road, has fared that way before. He kisses hard who has two mouths and goes only on gold. Heidrek King, think on that. 5. Q: What is that wonder I saw outside before the Doors of Day? Two lifeless ones, lacking breath; they boiled the leak of wounds. King Heidrek, guess my riddle. 6. Q: What is that wonder I saw outside before the Doors of Day? Eight feet it has and four eyes and bears knees above its belly. King Heidrek, guess my riddle. 7. Q: What is that wonder I saw outside before the Doors of Day? Its head directed down to hell, feet flap sunward. King Heidrek, guess my riddle. 8. Q: What is that wonder I saw outside before the Doors of Day? Harder than horn, blacker than raven, whiter than egg-white, straighter than shaft of spear? King Heidrek, guess my riddle. 9. Q: White-haired women, servants two, bore ale-tub to the larder. No hand turned it nor hammer beat it. But there, outside the islands, the upright one who made it. King Heidrek, guess my riddle. 10. Q: Who are those troll-wives, on the great mountain, woman begets with woman, a girl with a girl till she gets a son. But that's not to say they're women… King Heidrek, guess my riddle. 11. Q: I saw earth's ground-dwellers go, corpse sat on corpse. The blind rode the blind to the briny sea. That steed was short of breath. Heidrek King, think on that 12. Q: Who are those thanes who ride to the thing,8 sixteen guys together. Across the land they send their men to seek a home for themselves. King Heidrek, guess my riddle. 13. Q: What wives are they, their weaponless lord they smite down and slay. All day long the darker defend, but the fairer ones go forward. King Heidrek, guess my riddle. 14. Q: Who is the lone one that lurks in the hearth and stems from stone. No father or mother has Eager-to-Shine, there will he spend his life. King Heidrek, guess my riddle. 15. Q: Who is that great one who grasps the earth, swallowing wood and water. Bad weather he dreads, wind, but no man, and picks a fight with the sun. King Heidrek, guess my riddle. 16. Q: What beast is that which butchers wealth, is circled outside with iron. It has eight horns but never a head and much hazard hangs upon it. King Heidrek guess my riddle. 17. Q: What creature is that which cradles men, it bears a bloody back, and shelters fighters, from shaft and point, gives life to some, and lays its self inside a soldier's grasp? King Heidrek guess my riddle. 18. Q: What sisters at play pa** over countries through a father's wish to know. A white shield in winter they bear and a black one in the summer. King Heidrek, guess my riddle. 19. Q: Who are the women who wistful go through a father's wish to know. To many men they have done harm, that's how they make a living. King Heidrek, guess my riddle. 20. Q: Who are those maids who go many together through a father's wish to know. White hair have they, the white-bonnet ladies, but that's not to say they're women. 21. Q: Which are the widows who walk all together through a father's wish to know. They're seldom kind to the sons of men, and must wake in the wind. 22. Q: Long ago a nose-goose grew eager for offspring, she who gathered house-timber together; they defended her, bite-swords of straw, though drink's bellow-rock lay over her. 23. Q: Who is that great one who gabbles much and hoves to the hellward side; defends men but fights with earth, if he's found a trusty friend? 24. Q: Who are those wives who walk in the skerries and take a trip along the firth? Their bed is hard, the white-bonnet women. They can't play much in calm. King Heidrek, guess my riddle. 25. Q: Four hang, four sprang, two point the way, two to ward off dogs, one dangles after, always rather dirty. King Heidrek, guess my riddle. 26. Q: What inhabits high fells? What falls in deep dales? What lives without breath? What is never silent? King Heidrek, Guess my riddle. 27. Q: What is that wonder I saw outside before the Doors of Day? White they whirl, strike stone, and bury themselves black in the sand. King Heidrek, guess my riddle. 28. Q: A black boar I saw in muck wallow, and not a bristle grew on its back. King Heidrek, guess my riddle. 29. Q: I sat on a sail, I saw dead men bear a blood-hole into the bark of a tree. 30. Q: What is that wonder which whines on high, the arm-lathe howls, they're hard, chief. Heidrek King, think on that. 31. Q: What is that lamp which lights up men, but flame engulfs it, and wargs grasp after it always. 32. Q: A horse I saw stand, it struck a mare, it shook its tail, beat rump under belly; out it shall draw and waggle a good while. Heidrek King, think on that. 33. Q: In summer I saw them in the sunset (when I said goodbye they were barely drunk), jarls sipping ale in silence, but there howling the horn just stood. 34. Q: What is that wonder I saw outside before the Doors of Day: ten tongues it had, twenty eyes, forty feet, forward marched the monster. Heidrek King, think on that. 35. Q: Maidens I saw much like soil they made their beds in the mountains; sable and swarthy in sunny weather, but getting fairer when they fetch themselves away. King Heidrek, Guess my riddle. 36. Q: Who are those two who have ten feet, three eyes and one tail? Heidrek King, think on that. 37. Q: Then tell me this one last thing if you can, if you are of all kings the wisest: What did Odin say In Baldr's ear before he was raised on the pyre.