Lorick: Riddles and Lore

Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #156: I'm polluted by mad filicide I cheat death, I make sons... wear a hide! Giants? I kill them. Pillars? I build them. I'm too strong for this world! - Deified.

Does Lorick #156 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! I'm polluted by mad filicide I cheat death, I make sons... wear a hide! Giants? I kill them. Pillars? I build them. I'm too strong for this world! - Deified. Hint: A promethean saviour, I'm known for my labour

Lorick #155: I'm polluted by mad filicide I cheat death, I make sons... wear a hide! Giants? I kill them. Pillars? I build them. I'm too strong for this world! - Deified. But first, we solve #156 - here it is one last time: The fruit of industrialisation: subjugation and appropriation! Class-based antagonisms... Erase nationalisms! UNITE! And throw off exploitation!

Does Lorick #155 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! The fruit of industrialisation: subjugation and appropriation! Class-based antagonisms... Erase nationalisms! UNITE! And throw off exploitation! Hint: A spectre is haunting Europe

Lorick #154: The fruit of industrialisation: subjugation and appropriation! Class-based antagonisms... Erase nationalisms! UNITE! And throw off exploitation! But first, we solve #155 - here it is one last time: I've done a miraculous thing! Not suspicious at all, it would seem! My son's a big deal (even though a third wheel!) and my partner deferred to the King!

Does Lorick #154 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! I've done a miraculous thing! Not suspicious at all, it would seem! My son's a big deal (even though a third wheel!) and my partner deferred to the King! Hint: I don't say a lot but my aid's oft besought

Lorick #154, to confound and confusticate! I've done a miraculous thing! Not suspicious at all, it would seem! My son's a big deal (even though a third wheel!) and my partner deferred to the King!

Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #153: a carpenter, thatcher, and mason of the three, two were murderously chastened but their big wily foe, when it had a third go, learned too late 'twas its own death it hastened

Does Lorick #153 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! a carpenter, thatcher, and mason of the three, two were murderously chastened but their big wily foe, when it had a third go, learned too late 'twas its own death it hastened Hint: a story with structural salience

Lorick #152: a carpenter, thatcher, and mason of the three, two were murderously chastened but their big wily foe, when it had a third go, learned too late 'twas its own death it hastened But first, we solve #153 - here it is one last time: he's a guardian who never asks why ...likes a bone and a nice lullaby he has multiple heads; keeps the live from the dead... his a labour not many would try!

Does Lorick #152 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! he's a guardian who never asks why ...likes a bone and a nice lullaby he has multiple heads; keeps the live from the dead... his a labour not many would try! Hint: steady there... who's a good boy?

Lorick #151: he's a guardian who never asks why ...likes a bone and a nice lullaby he has multiple heads; keeps the live from the dead... his a labour not many would try! But first, we solve #152 - here it is one last time: every lifespan's a treasure one we'll stretch and then measure - weird judges, we three that live by THE tree - without malice dispensing displeasure

Does Lorick #151 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! every lifespan's a treasure one we'll stretch and then measure - weird judges, we three that live by THE tree - without malice dispensing displeasure Hint: we are not what you seek if you think we are Greek

Lorick #151, to confound and confusticate! every lifespan's a treasure one we'll stretch and then measure - weird judges, we three that live by THE tree - without malice dispensing displeasure

Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #150: my man needs his courage to stick! once begun, we must murder, and quick... but this guilty expression fuels my sanguine obsession - Oh! Beware what's foretold by a witch!

Does Lorick #150 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! my man needs his courage to stick! once begun, we must murder, and quick... but this guilty expression fuels my sanguine obsession - Oh! Beware what's foretold by a witch! Hint: my tale's full of Scots... and indelible blots!

Lorick #149: my man needs his courage to stick! once begun, we must murder, and quick... but this guilty expression fuels my sanguine obsession - Oh! Beware what's foretold by a witch! But first, we solve #150 - here it is one last time: I'm cheaper to pay than to fight my terror put Romans to flight a warlord, ahorse, an unstoppable force ...'till I died on my own wedding night

Does Lorick #149 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! I'm cheaper to pay than to fight my terror put Romans to flight a warlord, ahorse, an unstoppable force ...'till I died on my own wedding night Hint: My tribal sobriquet? Means nothing, I'd say

Lorick #148: I'm cheaper to pay than to fight my terror put Romans to flight a warlord, ahorse, an unstoppable force ...'till I died on my own wedding night But first, we solve #149 - here it is one last time: By Hera! Ensorcelled by Eros! Gave up all in exchange for a promise! _I_, the cause of their strife?! _I_, who should be his wife??!? Beware, fool, this wrongéd enchantress!

Does Lorick #148 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! By Hera! Ensorcelled by Eros! Gave up all in exchange for a promise! _I_, the cause of their strife?! _I_, who should be his wife??!? Beware, fool, this wrongéd enchantress!

Lorick #148, to confound and confusticate! By Hera! Ensorcelled by Eros! Gave up all in exchange for a promise! _I_, the cause of their strife?! _I_, who should be his wife??!? Beware, fool, this wrongéd enchantress!

Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #147: a hero with national favour a sailor, circumnavigator a scourge of the spaniards and knight of the lanyard a killer, a robber, a slaver

Does Lorick #147 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! a hero with national favour a sailor, circumnavigator a scourge of the spaniards and knight of the lanyard a killer, a robber, a slaver Hint: a tool of the state... with a queenly mandate

Lorick #146: a hero with national favour a sailor, circumnavigator a scourge of the spaniards and knight of the lanyard a killer, a robber, a slaver But first, we solve #147 - here it is one last time: I had gall, and charisma, ambition crossed a river, an act of sedition have my month, it's not march my right hand grabs the torch when I'm killed by a cruel coalition

Does Lorick #146 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! I had gall, and charisma, ambition crossed a river, an act of sedition have my month, it's not march my right hand grabs the torch when I'm killed by a cruel coalition Hint: I visited, I observed, and I vanquished