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Stanza 158

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

Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 158

1923
A twelfth I know, if high on a treeI see a hanged man swing;So do I write and color the runesThat forth he fares,And to me talks.
The Poetic Edda: Translated from the Icelandic with an Introduction and NotesPublic domain in the United States
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