Lorick #70: Metallurgy? That's me, I'm a geek! Much much more than a regular Greek My wife is divine unfaithful... it's fine... I'm made fun of -- unless magic they seek But first, we solve #71 - here it is one last time: Last and worst of the nomadic horse-lords; A shadow, a scourge, a restorer! My lame sobriquet forget it - I'm great - saved the Greek from the Turk... ruled with horror!

Lorick #70: Metallurgy? That's me, I'm a geek! Much much more than a regular Greek My wife is divine unfaithful... it's fine... I'm made fun of -- unless magic they seek But first, we solve #71 - here it is one last time: Last and worst of the nomadic horse-lords; A shadow, a scourge, a restorer! My lame sobriquet forget it - I'm great - saved the Greek from the Turk... ruled with horror!

Lorick #70: Metallurgy? That's me, I'm a geek! Much much more than a regular Greek My wife is divine unfaithful... it's fine... I'm made fun of -- unless magic they seek But first, we solve #71 - here it is one last time: Last and worst of the nomadic horse-lords; A shadow, a scourge, a restorer! My lame sobriquet forget it - I'm great - saved the Greek from the Turk... ruled with horror!

0710: #70 solved, and Lorick #71 Metallurgy? That's me, I'm a geek

Think you can solve thrice-weekly riddles from mythology, folklore, history, and literature? 
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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! 

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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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0710: #70 solved, and Lorick #71 Metallurgy? That's me, I'm a geek