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Lorick: Riddles and Lore
Yorick
290 episodes
1 day ago
Think you can solve thrice-weekly riddles from mythology, folklore, history, and literature? Try this Lorick on for size: A tempestuous prince was misled by incestuous king, hast'ly wed there's a ghost, and a play, and soliloquies fey... in the end, nearly everyone's dead! Hint: his father ghosted him. Answer: Hamlet! Get it? Lorick's host? Me, Yorick! Most soliloquized skull of all time! If you're ready to match wits with a skeletal skald who wields riddles ranging from Alice to Apollo, Homer to Herodotus, and from Rapunzel to Ragnarok - then listen! E'en subscribe! If you dare...
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Think you can solve thrice-weekly riddles from mythology, folklore, history, and literature? Try this Lorick on for size: A tempestuous prince was misled by incestuous king, hast'ly wed there's a ghost, and a play, and soliloquies fey... in the end, nearly everyone's dead! Hint: his father ghosted him. Answer: Hamlet! Get it? Lorick's host? Me, Yorick! Most soliloquized skull of all time! If you're ready to match wits with a skeletal skald who wields riddles ranging from Alice to Apollo, Homer to Herodotus, and from Rapunzel to Ragnarok - then listen! E'en subscribe! If you dare...
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Lorick: Riddles and Lore
1231: Clue #123, A place of dreams, whose tales entrance

Does Lorick #123 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!


A place of dreams, whose tales entrance

A time of quests and pure romance;

Whose bright flame of chivalry

fell to shame, and adultery

This paradise lost; whose memory lasts.


Hint:

Even as we sit all round, a seat of peril drags us down

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1 day ago
51 seconds

Lorick: Riddles and Lore
1230: #122 solved, and Lorick #123 A place of dreams, whose tales entrance

Lorick #122:


A place of dreams, whose tales entrance

A time of quests and pure romance;

Whose bright flame of chivalry

fell to shame, and adultery

This paradise lost; whose memory lasts.



But first, we solve #123 - here it is one last time:


For pilgrims we guarded the way,

'til a covetous king made us prey.

Heinous charges - contrived,

brought us down. Few survived.

Underground we still thrive, truthers say.

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2 days ago
8 minutes 37 seconds

Lorick: Riddles and Lore
1221: Clue #122, For pilgrims we guarded the way

Does Lorick #122 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!


For pilgrims we guarded the way,

'til a covetous king made us prey.

Heinous charges - contrived,

brought us down. Few survived.

Underground we still thrive, truthers say.


Hint:

We're poor fellows -- but known for wealth!

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3 days ago
55 seconds

Lorick: Riddles and Lore
1220: #121 solved, and Lorick #122 For pilgrims we guarded the way

Lorick #121:


For pilgrims we guarded the way,

'til a covetous king made us prey.

Heinous charges - contrived,

brought us down. Few survived.

Underground we still thrive, truthers say.



But first, we solve #122 - here it is one last time:


I'm a place you're unlikely to find.

My great knowledge, by my fall, left behind.

I was built from a lie -

a fable, gone awry...

now I lurk in the depths and the mind

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4 days ago
7 minutes 58 seconds

Lorick: Riddles and Lore
1211: Clue #121, I'm a place you're unlikely to find

Does Lorick #121 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!


I'm a place you're unlikely to find.

My great knowledge, by my fall, left behind.

I was built from a lie -

a fable, gone awry...

now I lurk in the depths and the mind


Hint:

blessed by the sea... perhaps overly

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5 days ago
46 seconds

Lorick: Riddles and Lore
1210: Lorick #121, I'm a place you're unlikely to find

Lorick #121, to confound and confusticate!


I'm a place you're unlikely to find.

My great knowledge, by my fall, left behind.

I was built from a lie -

a fable, gone awry...

now I lurk in the depths and the mind

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6 days ago
1 minute 34 seconds

Lorick: Riddles and Lore
1205: #120 solved; Week 040 Wrapped with Se'nnightly Synopsis

Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #120:


A shepherd that no man did hurt:

an ogre, a lone introvert.

He eats men, misbehaves,

bringing doom to his cave;

his blind, baffling vengeance? A curse!

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1 week ago
18 minutes 50 seconds

Lorick: Riddles and Lore
1201: Clue #120, A shepherd that no man did hurt

Does Lorick #120 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!


A shepherd that no man did hurt:

an ogre, a lone introvert.

He eats men, misbehaves,

bringing doom to his cave;

his blind, baffling vengeance? A curse!


Hint:

I'm from a wild race sometimes confused with electrical smiths


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1 week ago
59 seconds

Lorick: Riddles and Lore
1200: #119 solved, and Lorick #120 A shepherd that no man did hurt

Lorick #119:


A shepherd that no man did hurt:

an ogre, a lone introvert.

He eats men, misbehaves,

bringing doom to his cave;

his blind, baffling vengeance? A curse!



But first, we solve #120 - here it is one last time:


A slight man in bicorne and cockade:

one-armed lord of the sea and the blockade.

There's a square, and a column

and all England cries for him:

in great victory he died - legend made


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1 week ago
6 minutes 1 second

Lorick: Riddles and Lore
1191: Clue #119, A slight man in bicorne and cockade

Does Lorick #119 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!


A slight man in bicorne and cockade:

one-armed lord of the sea and the blockade.

There's a square, and a column

and all England cries for him:

in great victory he died - legend made


Hint:

boney's wings he clipped in the vanguard, in egypt!

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1 week ago
49 seconds

Lorick: Riddles and Lore
1190: #118 solved, and Lorick #119 A slight man in bicorne and cockade

Lorick #118:


A slight man in bicorne and cockade:

one-armed lord of the sea and the blockade.

There's a square, and a column

and all England cries for him:

in great victory he died - legend made



But first, we solve #119 - here it is one last time:


My wisdom was won at great cost;

and not all who wander are lost.

You want war? I'm your guy!

I look far, with my eye.

All-seeing... all-knowing... all-boss...


...

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1 week ago
5 minutes 46 seconds

Lorick: Riddles and Lore
1181: Clue #118, My wisdom was won at great cost

Does Lorick #118 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!


My wisdom was won at great cost;

and not all who wander are lost.

You want war? I'm your guy!

I look far, with my eye.

All-seeing... all-knowing... all-boss...


Hint:

I have crows and a horse... I'm a terrible norse...

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1 week ago
49 seconds

Lorick: Riddles and Lore
1180: Lorick #118, My wisdom was won at great cost

Lorick #118, to confound and confusticate!


My wisdom was won at great cost;

and not all who wander are lost.

You want war? I'm your guy!

I look far, with my eye.

All-seeing... all-knowing... all-boss...

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1 week ago
1 minute 40 seconds

Lorick: Riddles and Lore
1175: #117 solved; Week 039 Wrapped with Se'nnightly Synopsis

Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #117:


when light fails in the woods, we're alone.

happens twice... once we're saved by our stones

but birds feed and we're lost

a bird leads and we're caught

we escape we are rich we are home!

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2 weeks ago
12 minutes 3 seconds

Lorick: Riddles and Lore
1171: Clue #117, when light fails in the woods, we're alone

Does Lorick #117 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!


when light fails in the woods, we're alone.

happens twice... once we're saved by our stones

but birds feed and we're lost

a bird leads and we're caught

we escape we are rich we are home!


Hint:

stepmother is bad, witch is worse

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2 weeks ago
48 seconds

Lorick: Riddles and Lore
1170: #116 solved, and Lorick #117 when light fails in the woods, we're alone

Lorick #116:


when light fails in the woods, we're alone.

happens twice... once we're saved by our stones

but birds feed and we're lost

a bird leads and we're caught

we escape we are rich we are home!



But first, we solve #117 - here it is one last time:


I'm a son of the Sky. And the Earth.

I castrated my dad - he's the worst!

I like sickles, and scythes

...but my wife hated my tithes

So she hid my son from me at birth!

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2 weeks ago
7 minutes 14 seconds

Lorick: Riddles and Lore
1161: Clue #116, I'm a son of the Sky. And the Earth

Does Lorick #116 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!


I'm a son of the Sky. And the Earth.

I castrated my dad - he's the worst!

I like sickles, and scythes

...but my wife hated my tithes

So she hid my son from me at birth!


Hint:

My planet is big, not the biggest

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2 weeks ago
1 minute 1 second

Lorick: Riddles and Lore
1160: #115 solved, and Lorick #116 I'm a son of the Sky. And the Earth

Lorick #115:


I'm a son of the Sky. And the Earth.

I castrated my dad - he's the worst!

I like sickles, and scythes

...but my wife hated my tithes

So she hid my son from me at birth!



But first, we solve #116 - here it is one last time:


I'm a runner, so boastfully fast!

an escapee - but that doesn't last

Some say water's what blocks me;

for sure someone outfoxed me...

I'm ensnared, I'm consumed, I'm aghast!


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2 weeks ago
6 minutes 43 seconds

Lorick: Riddles and Lore
1151: Clue #115, I'm a runner, so boastfully fast

Does Lorick #115 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!


I'm a runner, so boastfully fast!

an escapee - but that doesn't last

Some say water's what blocks me;

for sure someone outfoxed me...

I'm ensnared, I'm consumed, I'm aghast!


Hint:

I taunt when I'm done and I rhyme and I run!

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2 weeks ago
46 seconds

Lorick: Riddles and Lore
1150: Lorick #115, I'm a runner, so boastfully fast

Lorick #115, to confound and confusticate!


I'm a runner, so boastfully fast!

an escapee - but that doesn't last

Some say water's what blocks me;

for sure someone outfoxed me...

I'm ensnared, I'm consumed, I'm aghast!

Show more...
2 weeks ago
1 minute 38 seconds

Lorick: Riddles and Lore
Think you can solve thrice-weekly riddles from mythology, folklore, history, and literature? Try this Lorick on for size: A tempestuous prince was misled by incestuous king, hast'ly wed there's a ghost, and a play, and soliloquies fey... in the end, nearly everyone's dead! Hint: his father ghosted him. Answer: Hamlet! Get it? Lorick's host? Me, Yorick! Most soliloquized skull of all time! If you're ready to match wits with a skeletal skald who wields riddles ranging from Alice to Apollo, Homer to Herodotus, and from Rapunzel to Ragnarok - then listen! E'en subscribe! If you dare...