Answer to page 2 riddle is a quill and the fingers that hold it! And looks like someone’s imagination got the better of him when he was copying out the text to practice handwriting and literacy!

I saw four wondrous creatures
travel together. Dark were the tracks,
very black the footprints. It was swift in its going:
faster than birds it flew through the sky;
it dove under wave. Vigorously he labored,
that striving warrior who showed it—all four—
the paths across ornamental gold.

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