Viking Conquest: Roman Fort

East of Bosvenegh you can find a place called "Roman Fort".
In there you will find a short man who tells why he is taking refuge in these Roman ruins. After that he challenges you to complete a set of 4 riddles. If you answer correctly he will give you an item.
Please note that in order to see the answer you must mouse over the black area.
In addition, you will need atleast 20 000 peningas in order to start this "quest".

First riddle

The first riddle goes like: " Who is that shrill one, who rides a hard road, has fared that way before. He kisses hard who has two mouths and goes only on gold"
The first answer is: Hammer
He will give you "Elf's Langseax" which is a one handed knife which cannot be used to block. It weighs 1.0, deals 34c in swing damage, deals 18p in thrust damage, has a speed of 94, a reach of 76 and requires 4 strength to use.

Second riddle

The second riddle goes like: "What is that wonder I saw in my ruins, Eight feet it has and four eyes and bears knees above its belly."
The second answer is: Spider
Even though it is the correct answer he takes 5000 peningas regardless.

Third riddle

The third riddle goes like: "Four hang, four sprang, two point the way, two to ward off dogs, one dangles after, always rather dirty."
The third answer is: Cow
He will give you "Elf's Shield" which has 380 in durability/health, 4.0 in weight, 20 resistance, 70 in size and 90 in speed.

Fourth riddle

The fourth and final riddle goes like: "What creature is that, which cradles men, it bears a bloody back, and shelter from fighters, from shaft and point, gives life to some, and lays its self inside a soldiers grasp?"
The fourth answer is: Shield
He will give you "Elf's Helm" which has +53 to head armor, requires 5 strength and has a weight of 2.0.It can be upgraded to "Lordly", which will give you +59 to head armor which makes it the best helmet in the game.
Apparently the devs have removed the option to upgrade the Elf's Helm to Lordly, so the highest upgrade you can get now is Reinforced, which gives you +57 head armor instead of +59, so 3 points less than Lordly but still the best helmet in the game. (Thanks to Ragnarr Loðbrók and MayorOfBrownTown for notifying me about this change).

Updates

*Made 13th December 2014.
**Updated 9th August 2015.
***Updated again 11th December 2016.
****Updated 24th July 2017. Each riddle now has its own respective section.

[EQUALIZER]

Ty bro

[Vuyek]

thank you for this

[VikingHawk]

He’ll tell you to come back with more money if you don’t have the 20k. People have experienced getting turned down even with 20k, so that is the bare minimum.

[Edztえどぜて]

you need exactly 20k or around 20k is fine? I only have 9k monies, still 11k to surpass 20k

[Walsingham]

Total War destroyer confirmed. You don't have to get every answer right, you can get one wrong.

[VikingHawk]

Fair enough. I'll give it a shot.

[Aether]

Could you move the text from the overview to the place it supposed to be?

I don't really like guides that everything is in the overview and nothing in the rest. That dosn't mean that I don't like it, or that it's scrap, but it's better if a guide isn't entirely in the guide overview, since that place is for the intro.

[Morpheus]

ah damn too bad but thanks!

[VikingHawk]

No, I think you only get one shot at it sadly

[Morpheus]

haha yea wish I would have find your guide 10 min earlier
is there a chance I meet that guy again?