Words

Continuing my February theme of song titles as inspiration for my blips, this is a cone shaped sculpture in stainless steel by Michael Fairfax in Exeter High Street. The words here are riddles from the Exeter Book which dates from the 10th century. The words are in inscribed backwads and show up this way in the mirror surface opposite

"I saw a creature, his stomach stuck out behind him, enormously swollen. A stalwart servant waited upon him. What filled up his stomach had traveled from far, and flew through his eye. He does not always die in giving life to others, but new strength revives in the pit of his stomach; he breathes again. What is he?"

The song title refers to the Bee Gee's song of that name.

If you want to know the answer to the riddle it's swolleb backwards!