Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 38
1923Away from his arms in the open fieldA man should fare not a foot;For never he knows when the need for a spearShall arise on the distant road.Free to read · Built for close study
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Away from his arms in the open fieldA man should fare not a foot;For never he knows when the need for a spearShall arise on the distant road.Hávamál, translated by Henry Adams Bellows, in The Poetic Edda (1923). Public-domain transcription sourced from Project Gutenberg ebook 73533.
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