Benjamin Thorpe · stanza 140
1866I know that I hung,on a wind-rocked tree,nine whole nights,with a spear wounded,and to Odin offered,myself to myself;on that tree,of which no one knowsfrom what root it springs.The Edda of Sæmund the Learned, 1866
I know that I hung,on a wind-rocked tree,nine whole nights,with a spear wounded,and to Odin offered,myself to myself;on that tree,of which no one knowsfrom what root it springs.