Does Lorick #137 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! he makes the earth quake on command his dominion is bordered by sand he storms and he curses... as recounted in verses... he's great... but his brother's more grand... Hint: He makes horses and worse...

Does Lorick #137 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! he makes the earth quake on command his dominion is bordered by sand he storms and he curses... as recounted in verses... he's great... but his brother's more grand... Hint: He makes horses and worse...

1371: Clue #137, he makes the earth quake on command

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! 

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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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