25 Whenever the hostile one hunts on my trail,
Follows me close, he will fail not of conflict,
Of a warm encounter, when he comes on my war-path,
If I reach, in my rage, through the roof of my hill
And deal my deadly [darts] of battle
30 On the foe I have feared and fled from long.
[29.] The “deadly darts of battle” have caused “porcupine” to be proposed as a solution to this riddle, though when all the details are considered “badger” seems on the whole the more reasonable.
XXIII. A Bow
My name is spelled AGOB with the order reversed.
I am marvelously fashioned and made for fighting.