12. Another Tale of Two Creatures.

An understanding of Riddle 29 may help elucidate a notoriously obscure Old English text, the meaning of which has long been debated. If the following new interpretation is broadly correct, it records another myth about the loss and concealment of sunlight (compare the giant sword) due to the actions of a horned creature possibly associated with the moon (compare Grendel), and that light’s recovery by the sun or a solar emissary, described, as in the riddle, as a wiht ‘creature’ (compare Beowu.