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Stanza 26

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

Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 26

1923
An ignorant man thinks that all he knows,When he sits by himself in a corner;But never what answer to make he know.,When others with questions come.
The Poetic Edda: Translated from the Icelandic with an Introduction and NotesPublic domain in the United States
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