Exeter Book Riddle 7 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records)[1] is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century Exeter Book, in this case on folio 103r. The solution is believed to be 'swan' and the riddle is noted as being one of the Old English riddles whose solution is most widely agreed on.[2] The riddle can be understood in its manuscript context as part of a sequence of bird-riddles.[3]
As edited by Richard Marsden, and translated by Elaine Treharne, Riddle 7 runs:
Hrægl mīn swīgað, þonne ic hrūsan trede, |
My garment is silent when I tread upon the earth |