50 Subscribers: Riddle 7

Here’s the seventh and final riddle in my celebration series after reaching 50 subscribers. What is the answer to this Anglo-Saxon riddle? What could it be? This is the one with the potential for the most lewdness, but I assure you it’s not rude.

There are several riddles which are like this. And it makes the mind boggle that the monks would even record this for posterity. But clearly their minds were cleaner than mine.

A curiosity hangs by the thigh of a man, under its master's cloak. It is pierced through in the front; it is stift and hard and it has a good standing-place. When the man pulls up his own robe above his knee, he means to poke with the head of his hanging thing that familiar hole of matching length which he has often filled before.

Tomorrow, I will reveal the answers.