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Riddles
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I bear life's weight, but not its burden, unseen until undone. Never bent but often broken, men dread when I come. What am I?
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Come across me and you will find,
you cannot change the course I'm on,
without me you cannot travel on.
What am I?
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Here's a Viking-era riddle that I rather like:
Hverr er sá inn mikli,
er líðr mold yfir,
svelgr hann vötn ok við;
glygg hann óast,
en gumna eigi
ok yrkir á sól til saka?
Heiðrekr konungr,
hyggðu at gátu.
Who is the huge beast
that blankets the earth
and devours valleys and lakes?
She fears the wind
but fears not men,
and assails against the sun.
Tell me King Heiðrekr,
of what do I speak?
That is not the only way I could translate that passage. Here's another way (literal but without the poetics) I could phrase it:
This is the huge one
that slips above the earth -
she swallows the lakes where she stops.
She fears the wind
yet not the man,
and works against the sun with violence.
Fog?