by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Translation © by Kevin John William Crossley-Holland (b. 1941)
Riddle 74
Language: English after the Old English
I was once a young woman [ ... ]
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Note: the answer to the riddle is a siren.
Text Authorship:
- by Kevin John William Crossley-Holland (b. 1941), "Riddle 74", copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Old English by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , appears in Exeter Book = Codex Exoniensis or Exeter Cathedral Library MS 3501 [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Nicola LeFanu (b. 1947), "Riddle 74", 1996 [ soprano and recorder ], from A Travelling Spirit, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
This text was added to the website: 2026-03-07
Line count: 5
Word count: 34