Two more riddles

[mneme]

[edit -- added credit for answer to 1]
[edit -- corrected spelling]
I actually never got around to posting the remaining two riddles from last night's rather one-sided riddle game (ie, me throwing riddles at drcpunk -- she got 4 (of course) and 2 (which nearly everyone got), but not the other 4 yet), so here aare the other two:

Four came before me.
Two commanded me.
One was within me.
[answered by marcmagus]


Famed am I.
Yet my final, fabled task
is cutting foliage.

Hmm. Or is the second one better as:

Famed am I.
Yet my final, fabled fate
is filetting foliage.

Is there such a thing as too much alliteration? :)

Comments

[bigscary.livejournal.com]

The second sounds like Kusanagi, the grass-cutting sword, pulled from the corpse of the Yamata-no-Orochi

[mneme]

I am familiar with Kusanagi, but no, the answer is not Grasscutter. (for one thing, Kusanagi's story -begins- with plant-cutting action, (and ends, IIRC, in a battle between the Yamata and the Minamoto) whereas the subject of my riddle would seem to end with it).

[bigscary.livejournal.com]

Actually, the grass-cutting is in the middle somewhere, and where it gets it's name of Kusanagi -- it was originally called something else.

[miari.livejournal.com]

The first sounds like a pregnant woman. She has one within her, her two parents commanded her, and she had 4 grandparents who came before her.

[mneme]

This was close to drcpunk's answer, but is not the answer.
(if one needs a reason -- clearly, one has more than 4 ancestors; there's nothing all -that- special about grandparents in that fashion).

My guesses

[gmdraves.livejournal.com]

The first one seems like the letter E, but I’m not sure to what the second line refers. Is the second one a political thing (foliage=shrubbery=Bush)?

Re: My guesses

[stormsweeper.livejournal.com]

My guess for the first one is 8.

Re: My guesses

[mneme]

No for both.

[marcmagus]

Babylon 5

[mneme]

For the first one, of course.
Yes.

[mneme]

Haven't gotten correct (several good ones, though) answer to #2, so I'm posting a different version here. Each is probably easier in the presence of the other.


Famed am I.
Yet my final, fabled fate
is filetting flour.

[see-urchin.livejournal.com]

I thought it was the letter I until you posted that last one. Now I am just confused.

Oh, and hello.

[mneme]

Nope. Nothing so common -- it's a novel reference.

Here's another, possibly clearer version:

Famed am I,
Yet my final, fabled work
Will be helping a Wyrm cut a flower.

[bigbrotherinlaw.livejournal.com]

OK, now I'm thinking this is either a Herbert or a Card reference. If so, I've read the work in question, but not in the last 15 years or so...

[mneme]

neither/nor