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Number 4 of the Exeter Book Riddle?

Assistant

I was a creature alive, with a voice and appearance,

With a soul and sense, with joints and sinews.

I was often on horseback and often in battle.

I have frequently enjoyed the pleasures of the table.

Now I am dead, the worms eat me.

Often they go with a rush into my skull.

They creep over me, over and over, as though the road went

That way. Tell me, dear man, what is in me.

Answer

A harp

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