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Stanza 125

The Poetic Edda: Translated from the Icelandic with an Introduction and Notes, 1923

Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 125

1923
I rede thee, Loddfafnir! and hear thou my rede,—Profit thou hast if thou hearest,Great thy gain if thou learnest:With a worse man speak not three words in dispute,Ill fares the better oftWhen the worse man wields a sword.
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