Publication details
- Work
- Hávamál
- Translator
- Benjamin Thorpe
- Year
- 1866
- Language
- English
- Text source
- Project Gutenberg / scan-verified edition
Edition
Benjamin Thorpe
The Edda of Sæmund the Learned, published 1866.
Use and attribution
- License
- Public domain
- Read online
- Available
- Noncommercial reuse
- Permitted
- Commercial reuse
- Permitted
- Quote cards
- Available
- Attribution
- Hávamál, translated by Benjamin Thorpe (1866).
Stanzas in this edition
Stanza 1All door-ways,Comparison availableStanza 2Givers, hail!Comparison availableStanza 3Fire is needfulComparison availableStanza 4Water to him is needfulComparison availableStanza 5Wit is needfulComparison availableStanza 6Of his understandingComparison availableStanza 7A way guest,Comparison availableStanza 8He is happy,Comparison availableStanza 9He is happy,Comparison availableStanza 10A better burthenComparison availableStanza 11A worse provisionComparison availableStanza 12A worse provisionComparison availableStanza 13Oblivion’s heron ‘tis calledComparison availableStanza 14Drunk I was,Comparison availableStanza 15Taciturn and prudent,Comparison availableStanza 16A cowardly manComparison availableStanza 17A fool gapesComparison availableStanza 18He alone knowsComparison availableStanza 19Let a man hold the cup,Comparison availableStanza 20A greedy man,Comparison availableStanza 21Cattle knowComparison availableStanza 22A miserable man,Comparison availableStanza 23A foolish manComparison availableStanza 24A foolish manComparison availableStanza 25A foolish manComparison availableStanza 26A foolish manComparison availableStanza 27A foolish man,Comparison availableStanza 28He thinks himself wise,Comparison availableStanza 29He utters too manyComparison availableStanza 30For a gazing-stockComparison availableStanza 31Clever thinks himselfComparison availableStanza 32Many menComparison availableStanza 33Early mealsComparison availableStanza 34Long is and indirect the wayComparison availableStanza 35A guest should depart,Comparison availableStanza 36One’s own house is best,Comparison availableStanza 37One’s own house is best,Comparison availableStanza 38Leaving in the field his arms,Comparison availableStanza 39I have never found aComparison availableStanza 40Of the propertyComparison availableStanza 41With arms and vestmentsComparison availableStanza 42To his friendComparison availableStanza 43To his friendComparison availableStanza 44Know, if thou has a friendComparison availableStanza 45If thou hast another,Comparison availableStanza 46But of him yet further,Comparison availableStanza 47I was once young,Comparison availableStanza 48Liberal and brave men live best,Comparison availableStanza 49My garments in a fieldComparison availableStanza 50A tree withersComparison availableStanza 51Hotter than fireComparison availableStanza 52Something greatComparison availableStanza 53Little are the sand-grains,Comparison availableStanza 54Moderately wiseComparison availableStanza 55Moderately wiseComparison availableStanza 56Moderately wiseComparison availableStanza 57Brand burns from brandComparison availableStanza 58He should early rise,Comparison availableStanza 59Early should riseComparison availableStanza 60Of dry planksComparison availableStanza 61Washed and refectedComparison availableStanza 62Inquire and impartComparison availableStanza 63Gasps and gapes,Comparison availableStanza 64His power shouldComparison availableStanza 65Circumspect and reservedComparison availableStanza 66Much too earlyComparison availableStanza 67Here and there I shouldComparison availableStanza 68Fire is bestComparison availableStanza 69No man lacks everything,Comparison availableStanza 70It is better to live,Comparison availableStanza 71The halt can ride on horseback,Comparison availableStanza 72A son is better,Comparison availableStanza 73Two are adversaries:Comparison availableStanza 74At night is joyfulComparison availableStanza 75He [only] knows notComparison availableStanza 76Cattle die,Comparison availableStanza 77Cattle die,Comparison availableStanza 78Full storehouses I sawComparison availableStanza 79A foolish man,Comparison availableStanza 80Then ‘tis made manifest,Comparison availableStanza 81At eve the day is to be praised,Comparison availableStanza 82In the wind one should hew wood,Comparison availableStanza 83By the fire one should drink beer,Comparison availableStanza 84In a maiden’s wordsComparison availableStanza 85in a creaking bow,Comparison availableStanza 86a flying dart,Comparison availableStanza 87a sick calf,Comparison availableStanza 88an early sown fieldComparison availableStanza 89a brother’s murderer,Comparison availableStanza 90Such is the love of women,Comparison availableStanza 91Openly I now speak,Comparison availableStanza 92Fair shall speak,Comparison availableStanza 93At love should no oneComparison availableStanza 94Let no one wonder atComparison availableStanza 95The mind only knowsComparison availableStanza 96That I experienced,Comparison availableStanza 97Billing’s lassComparison availableStanza 98“Yet nearer eveComparison availableStanza 99I returned,Comparison availableStanza 100When next I cameComparison availableStanza 101But at the approach of morn,Comparison availableStanza 102Many a fair maiden,Comparison availableStanza 103At home let a man be cheerful,Comparison availableStanza 104Fimbulfambi he is calledComparison availableStanza 105The old Jötun I sought;Comparison availableStanza 106Gunnlöd gave me,Comparison availableStanza 107Rati’s mouth I causedComparison availableStanza 108Of a well-assumed formComparison availableStanza 109‘Tis to me doubtfulComparison availableStanza 110On the day followingComparison availableStanza 111Odin, I believe,Comparison availableStanza 112Time ‘tis to discourseComparison availableStanza 113Of runes I heard discourse,Comparison availableStanza 114I counsel thee, Loddfafnir,Comparison availableStanza 115I counsel thee, Loddfafnir,Comparison availableStanza 116She will be the causeComparison availableStanza 117I counsel thee, etc.Comparison availableStanza 118I counsel thee, etc.Comparison availableStanza 119I counsel thee, etc.Comparison availableStanza 120I saw mortallyComparison availableStanza 121I counsel thee, etc.Comparison availableStanza 122I counsel thee, etc. —Comparison availableStanza 123I counsel thee, etc.Comparison availableStanza 124I counsel thee, etc.Comparison availableStanza 125for from an ill-conditioned manComparison availableStanza 126There is a mingling of affection,Comparison availableStanza 127I counsel thee, etc.Comparison availableStanza 128I counsel thee, etc.Comparison availableStanza 129I counsel thee, etc.Comparison availableStanza 130I counsel thee, etc.Comparison availableStanza 131I counsel thee, etc.Comparison availableStanza 132If thou wilt induce a good womanComparison availableStanza 133I enjoin thee to be wary,Comparison availableStanza 134With insult or derisionComparison availableStanza 135Vices and virtuesComparison availableStanza 136At a hoary speakerComparison availableStanza 137I counsel thee, etc.Comparison availableStanza 138Strong is the barComparison availableStanza 139I counsel thee, etc.Comparison availableStanza 140I know that I hung,Comparison availableStanza 141Bread no one gave me,Comparison availableStanza 142Potent songs nineComparison availableStanza 143Then I began to bear fruit,Comparison availableStanza 144Runes thou wilt find,Comparison availableStanza 145Odin among the Æsir,Comparison availableStanza 146Knowest thou how to grave them?Comparison availableStanza 147‘Tis better not to prayComparison availableStanza 148Those songs I knowComparison availableStanza 149For the second I know,Comparison availableStanza 150For the third I know,Comparison availableStanza 151For the forth I know,Comparison availableStanza 152For the fifth I know,Comparison availableStanza 153For the sixth I know,Comparison availableStanza 154For the seventh I know,Comparison availableStanza 155For the eighth I know,Comparison availableStanza 156For the ninth I know,Comparison availableStanza 157For the tenth I know,Comparison availableStanza 158For the eleventh I know,Comparison availableStanza 159For the twelfth I know,Comparison availableStanza 160For the thirteenth I know,Comparison availableStanza 161For the fourteenth I know,Comparison availableStanza 162For the fifteenth I knowComparison availableStanza 163For the sixteenth I know,Comparison availableStanza 164For the seventeenth I know,Comparison availableStanza 165For the eighteenth I knowComparison availableStanza 166Now are sung theComparison available