Lorick: Riddles and Lore

Does Lorick #49 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! I'm a lady, both cunning, and fey; Femme fatale? Yes, I curse and betray... Stole the scabbard and sword From my half-brother lord... With enchantments I lead knights astray! Hint: My sister and nephew and me, we are biting and deadly - all three!

Lorick #49, to confound and confusticate! I'm a lady, both cunning, and fey; Femme fatale? Yes, I curse and betray... Stole the scabbard and sword From my half-brother lord... With enchantments I lead knights astray!

Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #48: I am ceaselessly plagued with temptation I've no peace, I'm enraged by frustration There's a hunger and thirst Wage of hubris: accursed No surcease to this agelong privation

Does Lorick #48 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! I am ceaselessly plagued with temptation I've no peace, I'm enraged by frustration There's a hunger and thirst Wage of hubris: accursed No surcease to this agelong privation Hint: I may have been a very bad dad.

Lorick #47: I am ceaselessly plagued with temptation I've no peace, I'm enraged by frustration There's a hunger and thirst Wage of hubris: accursed No surcease to this agelong privation But first, we solve #48 - here it is one last time: I'm Hebrew, I'm Greek, and I'm Latin I'm used every morning at matins I'm old and I'm new and I'm Gutenberg's ruin I'm cradled in boxes of satin

Does Lorick #47 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! I'm Hebrew, I'm Greek, and I'm Latin I'm used every morning at matins I'm old and I'm new and I'm Gutenberg's ruin I'm cradled in boxes of satin Hint: I'm almost as common as humans

Lorick #46: I'm Hebrew, I'm Greek, and I'm Latin I'm used every morning at matins I'm old and I'm new and I'm Gutenberg's ruin I'm cradled in boxes of satin But first, we solve #47 - here it is one last time: For a hero, I'm sort of a clever man Not divine - I'm more of an everyman My return was not fast - I was tied to a mast! As to suitors, I'm ega...

Does Lorick #46 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! For a hero, I'm sort of a clever man Not divine - I'm more of an everyman My return was not fast - I was tied to a mast! As to suitors, I'm egalitarian. Hint: Won a war with a horse; a deception, of course!

Lorick #46, to confound and confusticate! For a hero, I'm sort of a clever man Not divine - I'm more of an everyman My return was not fast - I was tied to a mast! As to suitors, I'm egalitarian.

Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #45: Ill - but embedding a token - stealthy message unspoken - speaking in this wise to initiate's eyes kings in shadow control the unwoken

Does Lorick #45 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! Ill - but embedding a token - stealthy message unspoken - speaking in this wise to initiate's eyes kings in shadow control the unwoken Hint: the all-seeing eye on the pyramid is mine

Lorick #44: Ill - but embedding a token - stealthy message unspoken - speaking in this wise to initiate's eyes kings in shadow control the unwoken But first, we solve #45 - here it is one last time: I'm a king who is killed and divided I'm a riverine god, I'm revived! My son of great worth by posthumous birth wrought avuncular vengeance, then thrived!

Does Lorick #44 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! I'm a king who is killed and divided I'm a riverine god, I'm revived! My son of great worth by posthumous birth wrought avuncular vengeance, then thrived! Hint: and my wife's worship spread - syncretized!

Lorick #43: I'm a king who is killed and divided I'm a riverine god, I'm revived! My son of great worth by posthumous birth wrought avuncular vengeance, then thrived! But first, we solve #44 - here it is one last time: twenty-one score years agone yet my grin taunts still -- anon remember remember through lack of an ember parliament's doom was withdrawn

Does Lorick #43 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! twenty-one score years agone yet my grin taunts still -- anon remember remember through lack of an ember parliament's doom was withdrawn Hint: my mask haunts november

Lorick #43, to confound and confusticate! twenty-one score years agone yet my grin taunts still -- anon remember remember through lack of an ember parliament's doom was withdrawn

Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #42: I'm a lover of heat and of fire I have died and been born on a pyre I'm unique, and eternal I look slightly infernal my own child I am and, my own sire!

Does Lorick #42 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! I'm a lover of heat and of fire I have died and been born on a pyre I'm unique, and eternal I look slightly infernal my own child I am and, my own sire! Hint: And I'm allllso, a fabbbbulous flier!

Lorick #41: I'm a lover of heat and of fire I have died and been born on a pyre I'm unique, and eternal I look slightly infernal my own child I am and, my own sire! But first, we solve #42 - here it is one last time: In treachery was I conceived my mother, by father, deceived once anointed by stone -- king of kings: overthrown! Still, for this I am known -- chivalry!

Does Lorick #41 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! In treachery was I conceived my mother, by father, deceived once anointed by stone -- king of kings: overthrown! Still, for this I am known -- chivalry! Hint: A cuckold king, and son -- of a king who cuckolded one!

Lorick #40: In treachery was I conceived my mother, by father, deceived once anointed by stone -- king of kings: overthrown! Still, for this I am known -- chivalry! But first, we solve #41 - here it is one last time: All labour, no play, would be wrong. It is time to compete for the throng! There is boxing and wrestling, their athletics they're testing... sweaty men chasing glory in thongs!

Does Lorick #40 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! All labour, no play, would be wrong. It is time to compete for the throng! There is boxing and wrestling, their athletics they're testing... sweaty men chasing glory in thongs! Hint: Although founded in Greece - now my grounds have increased!

Lorick #40, to confound and confusticate! All labour, no play, would be wrong. It is time to compete for the throng! There is boxing and wrestling, their athletics they're testing... sweaty men chasing glory in thongs!

Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #39: An eponymous epic am I; With marsh mother and monster I vie Hailed as hero -- their bane -- Become king, long I reign Dealt draconic defeat, so I died.

Does Lorick #39 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! An eponymous epic am I; With marsh mother and monster I vie Hailed as hero -- their bane -- Become king, long I reign Dealt draconic defeat, so I died. Hint: My name you may know... my story, less so.