Lorick: Riddles and Lore

Does Lorick #124 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! I'm a woman of militant vision For my people and king, my ambition I'm a heretic martyr I'm a saint with a garter I'm not needed, once completed, my mission... Hint: I heard a great voice, and Charles was its choice

Lorick #124, to confound and confusticate! I'm a woman of militant vision For my people and king, my ambition I'm a heretic martyr I'm a saint with a garter I'm not needed, once completed, my mission...

Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #123: A place of dreams, whose tales entrance A time of quests and pure romance; Whose bright flame of chivalry fell to shame, and adultery This paradise lost; whose memory lasts.

Does Lorick #123 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! A place of dreams, whose tales entrance A time of quests and pure romance; Whose bright flame of chivalry fell to shame, and adultery This paradise lost; whose memory lasts. Hint: Even as we sit all round, a seat of peril drags us down

Lorick #122: A place of dreams, whose tales entrance A time of quests and pure romance; Whose bright flame of chivalry fell to shame, and adultery This paradise lost; whose memory lasts. But first, we solve #123 - here it is one last time: For pilgrims we guarded the way, 'til a covetous king made us prey. Heinous charges - contrived, brought us down. Few survived. Underground we still thrive,...

Does Lorick #122 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! For pilgrims we guarded the way, 'til a covetous king made us prey. Heinous charges - contrived, brought us down. Few survived. Underground we still thrive, truthers say. Hint: We're poor fellows -- but known for wealth!

Lorick #121: For pilgrims we guarded the way, 'til a covetous king made us prey. Heinous charges - contrived, brought us down. Few survived. Underground we still thrive, truthers say. But first, we solve #122 - here it is one last time: I'm a place you're unlikely to find. My great knowledge, by my fall, left behind. I was built from a lie - a fable, gone awry... now I lurk in the dept...

Does Lorick #121 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! I'm a place you're unlikely to find. My great knowledge, by my fall, left behind. I was built from a lie - a fable, gone awry... now I lurk in the depths and the mind Hint: blessed by the sea... perhaps overly

Lorick #121, to confound and confusticate! I'm a place you're unlikely to find. My great knowledge, by my fall, left behind. I was built from a lie - a fable, gone awry... now I lurk in the depths and the mind

Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #120: A shepherd that no man did hurt: an ogre, a lone introvert. He eats men, misbehaves, bringing doom to his cave; his blind, baffling vengeance? A curse!

Does Lorick #120 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! A shepherd that no man did hurt: an ogre, a lone introvert. He eats men, misbehaves, bringing doom to his cave; his blind, baffling vengeance? A curse! Hint: I'm from a wild race sometimes confused with electrical smiths

Lorick #119: A shepherd that no man did hurt: an ogre, a lone introvert. He eats men, misbehaves, bringing doom to his cave; his blind, baffling vengeance? A curse! But first, we solve #120 - here it is one last time: A slight man in bicorne and cockade: one-armed lord of the sea and the blockade. There's a square, and a column and all England cries for him: in great victory he died - legend m...

Does Lorick #119 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! A slight man in bicorne and cockade: one-armed lord of the sea and the blockade. There's a square, and a column and all England cries for him: in great victory he died - legend made Hint: boney's wings he clipped in the vanguard, in egypt!

Lorick #118: A slight man in bicorne and cockade: one-armed lord of the sea and the blockade. There's a square, and a column and all England cries for him: in great victory he died - legend made But first, we solve #119 - here it is one last time: My wisdom was won at great cost; and not all who wander are lost. You want war? I'm your guy! I look far, with my eye. All-seeing... all-knowing...

Does Lorick #118 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! My wisdom was won at great cost; and not all who wander are lost. You want war? I'm your guy! I look far, with my eye. All-seeing... all-knowing... all-boss... Hint: I have crows and a horse... I'm a terrible norse...

Lorick #118, to confound and confusticate! My wisdom was won at great cost; and not all who wander are lost. You want war? I'm your guy! I look far, with my eye. All-seeing... all-knowing... all-boss...

Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #117: when light fails in the woods, we're alone. happens twice... once we're saved by our stones but birds feed and we're lost a bird leads and we're caught we escape we are rich we are home!

Does Lorick #117 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! when light fails in the woods, we're alone. happens twice... once we're saved by our stones but birds feed and we're lost a bird leads and we're caught we escape we are rich we are home! Hint: stepmother is bad, witch is worse

Lorick #116: when light fails in the woods, we're alone. happens twice... once we're saved by our stones but birds feed and we're lost a bird leads and we're caught we escape we are rich we are home! But first, we solve #117 - here it is one last time: I'm a son of the Sky. And the Earth. I castrated my dad - he's the worst! I like sickles, and scythes ...but my wife hated...

Does Lorick #116 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! I'm a son of the Sky. And the Earth. I castrated my dad - he's the worst! I like sickles, and scythes ...but my wife hated my tithes So she hid my son from me at birth! Hint: My planet is big, not the biggest

Lorick #115: I'm a son of the Sky. And the Earth. I castrated my dad - he's the worst! I like sickles, and scythes ...but my wife hated my tithes So she hid my son from me at birth! But first, we solve #116 - here it is one last time: I'm a runner, so boastfully fast! an escapee - but that doesn't last Some say water's what blocks me; for sure someone outfoxed me... I'm ens...

Does Lorick #115 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! I'm a runner, so boastfully fast! an escapee - but that doesn't last Some say water's what blocks me; for sure someone outfoxed me... I'm ensnared, I'm consumed, I'm aghast! Hint: I taunt when I'm done and I rhyme and I run!

Lorick #115, to confound and confusticate! I'm a runner, so boastfully fast! an escapee - but that doesn't last Some say water's what blocks me; for sure someone outfoxed me... I'm ensnared, I'm consumed, I'm aghast!

Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #114: White as snow, to the queen I'm fed Red as blood, 'twas a boar instead By glass, I'm betrayed seven are dismayed Blacker than ebony, we dance the queen dead

Does Lorick #114 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! White as snow, to the queen I'm fed Red as blood, 'twas a boar instead By glass, I'm betrayed seven are dismayed Blacker than ebony, we dance the queen dead Hint: Oft confused with a beauty, I revolutionized movies!