50 Subscribers: Riddle Answers

Here’s the answer to the riddles for my celebration series after reaching 50 subscribers.

Riddle 1

A moth ate words. That seemed to me a curious occurrence, when I heard of that marvel.

That this worm gulped down the utterance of a certain man. This thief in the dark ate his illustrious discourse and its tough foundation.

However, the pilfering visitor was not a whit the wiser, even though he had gulped in those words.

Solution: Bookworm

Riddle 2

My father and mother abandoned me in this world, while I was dead. There was as yet no life, no being in me.

Then a very kindly wife covered me with her clothes. Kept me, cherished me and canopied me with a protective covering, as fittingly for her own child.

I became to my unrelated kindred a kin of spirit. This beautiful wife continued to feed me, until I grew mature and could set my paths further afield.

She had fewer beloved sons and daughters because she did so.

Solution: Cuckoo

Riddle 3

A wondrous thing happened at sea: the water turned to bone.

Solution: Ice

Riddle 4

l am one on my own, wounded by weapon of iron, scarred by sword, wearied from the actions of the fray and exhausted from the edges of the blade.

Often I see battle and fight the foe. The products of hammers, the hard-edged blade, bloodily sharp, the handiwork of the smiths, buffet and bite me within the strongholds.

I must continue to await encounters yet more hostile. Never have I been able to find in the town a kind of physician who can heal my wounds with herbs; instead, the sword-gashes upon me grow bigger through mortal blows by day and by night.

Solution: Shield

Riddle 5

What good man is so learned and so clever that he can say who drives me forth on my way? When I rise up strong at times furious, I thunder mightily and again with havoc I sweep over the land, burn the great halls, ravage the buildings.

Smoke mounts on high dark over the rooftops. Clamor is everywhere, sudden death among men. When I shake the forest, the trees proud in their fruit, I fell the boughes.

With my roof of water, by the powers above⁠ I am driven far and wide on my avenging path.
I bear on my back what once covered the forms of the earth-dwellers, their body and soul together in the waters.    

Say what covers me or what I am called?

Solution: A Lightning Storm

Riddle 6

A creature came slinking where men were sitting, many of them in council, men shrewd in mind.

The creature had one eye and two ears and two feet, twelve hundred heads, a back and a belly and two hands, arms and shoulders, one neck and two sides. Say what I am called.

Solution: A one eyed garlic seller

Riddle 7

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.

Solution: A key

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