Growth through ambiguity

The Exeter Book of Old English riddles, containing over 90 riddles, was produced in the late 10th century. Now preserved in the Exeter Cathedral Library, MS 3501, f. 84v

“I was a young girl, a grey-haired woman,
and a singular warrior at the same time;
I soared with the birds and swam in the water,
dove under the waves, dead among the fish,
and stepped on la…