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Stanza 146

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

Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 146

1923
Better no prayer than too big an offering,By thy getting measure thy gift;Better is none than too big a sacrifice,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .So Thund of old wrote ere man’s race began,Where he rose on high when home he came.* * *
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