Lorick: Riddles and Lore

Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #156:

I'm polluted by mad filicide

I cheat death, I make sons... wear a hide!

Giants? I kill them.

Pillars? I build them.

I'm too strong for this world! - Deified.

Does Lorick #156 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!

I'm polluted by mad filicide

I cheat death, I make sons... wear a hide!

Giants? I kill them.

Pillars? I build them.

I'm too strong for this world! - Deified.

Hint:

A promethean saviour, I'm known for my labour

Lorick #155:

I'm polluted by mad filicide

I cheat death, I make sons... wear a hide!

Giants? I kill them.

Pillars? I build them.

I'm too strong for this world! - Deified.

But first, we solve #156 - here it is one last time:

The fruit of industrialisation:

subjugation and appropriation!

Class-based antagonisms...

Erase nationalisms!

UNITE! And throw off exploitation!

Does Lorick #155 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!

The fruit of industrialisation:

subjugation and appropriation!

Class-based antagonisms...

Erase nationalisms!

UNITE! And throw off exploitation!

Hint:

A spectre is haunting Europe

Lorick #154:

The fruit of industrialisation:

subjugation and appropriation!

Class-based antagonisms...

Erase nationalisms!

UNITE! And throw off exploitation!

But first, we solve #155 - here it is one last time:

I've done a miraculous thing!

Not suspicious at all, it would seem!

My son's a big deal

(even though a third wheel!)

and my partner deferred to the King!

Does Lorick #154 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!

I've done a miraculous thing!

Not suspicious at all, it would seem!

My son's a big deal

(even though a third wheel!)

and my partner deferred to the King!

Hint:

I don't say a lot but my aid's oft besought

Lorick #154, to confound and confusticate!

I've done a miraculous thing!

Not suspicious at all, it would seem!

My son's a big deal

(even though a third wheel!)

and my partner deferred to the King!

Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #153:

a carpenter, thatcher, and mason

of the three, two were murderously chastened

but their big wily foe,

when it had a third go,

learned too late 'twas its own death it hastened

Does Lorick #153 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!

a carpenter, thatcher, and mason

of the three, two were murderously chastened

but their big wily foe,

when it had a third go,

learned too late 'twas its own death it hastened

Hint:

a story with structural salience

Lorick #152:

a carpenter, thatcher, and mason

of the three, two were murderously chastened

but their big wily foe,

when it had a third go,

learned too late 'twas its own death it hastened

But first, we solve #153 - here it is one last time:

he's a guardian who never asks why

...likes a bone and a nice lullaby

he has multiple heads;

keeps the live from the dead...

his a labour not many would try!