Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book/Annotated/70

The first four lines are easy: S R O H, or &lsquo;horse&rsquo; written backwards, with an unarmed warrior on its back. The rest, five lines containing thirteen runes, is not easy. The text is certainly faulty and a great many emendations have been proposed. N O M is of course &lsquo;man.&rsquo; A G E W for wega, &lsquo;of ways,&rsquo; is genitive plural, but there is no syntax for a genitive. C O F O A H is for haofoc, &lsquo;hawk.&rsquo;  Thus the general idea is: &ldquo;I saw an unarmed warrior riding a spirited horse happily, with a hawk on his wrist.&rdquo;  (See the following riddle.)