This translation of the forty-sixth riddle for the Exeter Book is from Paull F. Baum.

 

He sat at his wine ……… with his two wives

and his two sons ……… and his two daughters,

the beloved sisters, ……… and their two sons,

goodly first born. ……… The father of each

of these noble ones ……… was there and there also

an uncle and a nephew. ……… Five in all,

men and women, ……… were sitting together.

 

 

Would you guess?

 

The Anglo-Saxon calendar

The ancestral line of King Alfred

King David and his wives and children

Grendel and his mother with three dead thanes

 Lot, his two daughters and their two children, Moab and Ben Ammi