Anglo Saxon Riddles #3

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Father and mother gave me up dead in these days, nor was life or stir yet within me. Then one, a linswoman very gracious, began to cover me with garments, held and guarded me, covered me as honourably with a protecting robe as her own child, till beneath her bosom, as my destiny was, I became mighty in spirit among those who were no kin of mine. The beautiful kinswoman afterwards fed me, till I grew up, could set out more widely on journeys; she had the fewer of her own dear sons and daughtesr by what she did thus.

Answer: Cuckoo