Lorick: Riddles and Lore

Lorick #70: Metallurgy? That's me, I'm a geek! Much much more than a regular Greek My wife is divine unfaithful... it's fine... I'm made fun of -- unless magic they seek But first, we solve #71 - here it is one last time: Last and worst of the nomadic horse-lords; A shadow, a scourge, a restorer! My lame sobriquet forget it - I'm great - saved the Greek from the Turk... ruled with horror!

Does Lorick #70 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! Last and worst of the nomadic horse-lords; A shadow, a scourge, a restorer! My lame sobriquet forget it - I'm great - saved the Greek from the Turk... ruled with horror! Hint: He boosted blank verse, made wars... and a curse

Lorick #70, to confound and confusticate! Last and worst of the nomadic horse-lords; A shadow, a scourge, a restorer! My lame sobriquet forget it - I'm great - saved the Greek from the Turk... ruled with horror!

Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #69: We founded a dangerous dynasty; Two brothers - both mothered abnormally! Our legacy: lengthy, Our empire: strengthy! ...though captured by mono-theology.

Does Lorick #69 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! We founded a dangerous dynasty; Two brothers - both mothered abnormally! Our legacy: lengthy, Our empire: strengthy! ...though captured by mono-theology. Hint: the fate of the twins... one murdered; one wins

Lorick #68: We founded a dangerous dynasty; Two brothers - both mothered abnormally! Our legacy: lengthy, Our empire: strengthy! ...though captured by mono-theology. But first, we solve #69 - here it is one last time: I'm a king, I'm a spook, I'm a play and my son is a kook many say My wife? disappointing - My brother? anointing - Come, thou horrible reckoning day!

Does Lorick #68 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! I'm a king, I'm a spook, I'm a play and my son is a kook many say My wife? disappointing - My brother? anointing - Come, thou horrible reckoning day! Hint: In descent as in play, eponymy is the way

Lorick #67: I'm a king, I'm a spook, I'm a play and my son is a kook many say My wife? disappointing - My brother? anointing - Come, thou horrible reckoning day! But first, we solve #68 - here it is one last time: I'm an animal man - see my sheep herd! Bro and I, neither each other's keeper... My lambs are accepted, I'm highly respected, Second-born, first to fall.. to the...

Does Lorick #67 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! I'm an animal man - see my sheep herd! Bro and I, neither each other's keeper... My lambs are accepted, I'm highly respected, Second-born, first to fall.. to the reaper. Hint: I'm a victim of crime, from a long-ago time.

Lorick #67, to confound and confusticate! I'm an animal man - see my sheep herd! Bro and I, neither each other's keeper... My lambs are accepted, I'm highly respected, Second-born, first to fall.. to the reaper.

Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #66: My pursuit of the monster is logical and my logic is monomaniacal broke in body and mind by the white one of its kind next to whom I am naught but a barnacle!

Does Lorick #66 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! My pursuit of the monster is logical and my logic is monomaniacal broke in body and mind by the white one of its kind next to whom I am naught but a barnacle! Hint: the oceans are nay big enough to contain me fury

Lorick #65: My pursuit of the monster is logical and my logic is monomaniacal broke in body and mind by the white one of its kind next to whom I am naught but a barnacle! But first, we solve #66 - here it is one last time: I'm a mystery under the blue the key to me lock known to few highlanders roam near my watery home if a monster - that judgement's on you!

Does Lorick #65 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! I'm a mystery under the blue the key to my lock known to few highlanders roam near my watery home if a monster - that judgement's on you! Hint: a cryptid I be in a freshwater sea

Lorick #64: I'm a mystery under the blue the key to my lock known to few highlanders roam near my watery home if a monster - that judgement's on you! But first, we solve #65 - here it is one last time: It's Yahweh or the highway I guess A prophet delivers or else! I refused and was eaten; but repented... I'm beaten! I rue my grim warning's success!

Does Lorick #64 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! It's Yahweh or the highway I guess A prophet delivers or else! I refused and was eaten; but repented... I'm beaten! I rue my grim warning's success! Hint: I'm most known for my maritime misery

Lorick #64, to confound and confusticate! It's Yahweh or the highway I guess A prophet delivers or else! I refused and was eaten; but repented... I'm beaten! I rue my grim warning's success!

Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #63: I like floods- give me water to grow give me beasts- they're a help when you sow I made cities a thing and the hunt felt my sting did I help humankind? some say no!

Does Lorick #63 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! I like floods- give me water to grow give me beasts- they're a help when you sow I made cities a thing and the hunt felt my sting was I good for mankind? some say no! Hint: I'm more Cain than Abel

Lorick #62: I like floods- give me water to grow give me beasts- they're a help when you sow I made cities a thing and the hunt felt my sting was I good for mankind? some say no! But first, we solve #63 - here it is one last time: A decree on behalf of a king: a bilingual/trilingual thing - of a fame most despotic, makes its claims in demotic - hierophantical decoder ring!

Does Lorick #62 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! A decree on behalf of a king: a bilingual/trilingual thing - of a fame most despotic, makes its claims in demotic - hierophantical decoder ring! Hint: it's not what you say but how many ways you say it

Lorick #61: A decree on behalf of a king: a bilingual/trilingual thing - of a fame most despotic, makes its claims in demotic - hierophantical decoder ring! But first, we solve #62 - here it is one last time: His rule was above the median Precursor to powers more grecian The first to be "greated", his conquests were fated! Freeing people: a clever expedient.

Does Lorick #61 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! His rule was above the median Precursor to powers more grecian The first to be "greated", his conquests were fated! Freeing people: a clever expedient. Hint: Beloved by the bible - and babylon too?

Lorick #61, to confound and confusticate! His rule was above the median Precursor to powers more grecian The first to be "greated", his conquests were fated! Freeing people: a clever expedient.

Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #60: Look for me off the Cape of Good Hope - hear the creak of my timbers and ropes! I sail without wind my crew may have sinned... and my curse has a - forever - scope!