Lorick: Riddles and Lore

Does Lorick #122 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!

For pilgrims we guarded the way,

'til a covetous king made us prey.

Heinous charges - contrived,

brought us down. Few survived.

Underground we still thrive, truthers say.

Hint:

We're poor fellows -- but known for wealth!

Lorick #121:

For pilgrims we guarded the way,

'til a covetous king made us prey.

Heinous charges - contrived,

brought us down. Few survived.

Underground we still thrive, truthers say.

But first, we solve #122 - here it is one last time:

I'm a place you're unlikely to find.

My great knowledge, by my fall, left behind.

I was built from a lie -

a fable, gone awry...

now I lurk in the depths and the mind

Does Lorick #121 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!

I'm a place you're unlikely to find.

My great knowledge, by my fall, left behind.

I was built from a lie -

a fable, gone awry...

now I lurk in the depths and the mind

Hint:

blessed by the sea... perhaps overly

Lorick #121, to confound and confusticate!

I'm a place you're unlikely to find.

My great knowledge, by my fall, left behind.

I was built from a lie -

a fable, gone awry...

now I lurk in the depths and the mind

Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #120:

A shepherd that no man did hurt:

an ogre, a lone introvert.

He eats men, misbehaves,

bringing doom to his cave;

his blind, baffling vengeance? A curse!

Does Lorick #120 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!

A shepherd that no man did hurt:

an ogre, a lone introvert.

He eats men, misbehaves,

bringing doom to his cave;

his blind, baffling vengeance? A curse!

Hint:

I'm from a wild race sometimes confused with electrical smiths

Lorick #119:

A shepherd that no man did hurt:

an ogre, a lone introvert.

He eats men, misbehaves,

bringing doom to his cave;

his blind, baffling vengeance? A curse!

But first, we solve #120 - here it is one last time:

A slight man in bicorne and cockade:

one-armed lord of the sea and the blockade.

There's a square, and a column

and all England cries for him:

in great victory he died - legend made

Does Lorick #119 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!

A slight man in bicorne and cockade:

one-armed lord of the sea and the blockade.

There's a square, and a column

and all England cries for him:

in great victory he died - legend made

Hint:

boney's wings he clipped in the vanguard, in egypt!

Lorick #118:

A slight man in bicorne and cockade:

one-armed lord of the sea and the blockade.

There's a square, and a column

and all England cries for him:

in great victory he died - legend made

But first, we solve #119 - here it is one last time:

My wisdom was won at great cost;

and not all who wander are lost.

You want war? I'm your guy!

I look far, with my eye.

All-seeing... all-knowing... all-boss...

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Does Lorick #118 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!

My wisdom was won at great cost;

and not all who wander are lost.

You want war? I'm your guy!

I look far, with my eye.

All-seeing... all-knowing... all-boss...

Hint:

I have crows and a horse... I'm a terrible norse...