Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 57
1923A brand from a brand is kindled and burned,And fire from fire begotten;And man by his speech is known to men,And the stupid by their stillness.Hávamál · Hávamál proper
Henry Adams Bellows stanza 57
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Benjamin Thorpe · stanza 57
1866Brand burns from branduntil it is burnt out;fire is from fire quickened.Man to manbecomes known by speech,but a fool by his bashful silence.Olive Bray · stanza 57
1908Old Norse
57, line 3.— R , Dt Hl. J., inaþr manni verþr af máli kuþr, Mh. G. H. S.English translation
Brand kindles from brand till it be burned,spark is kindled from spark,man unfold him by speech with man,but grows over secret through silence.Source
The Poetic Edda: Translated from the Icelandic with an Introduction and Notes
Hávamál, translated by Henry Adams Bellows, in The Poetic Edda (1923). Public-domain transcription sourced from Project Gutenberg ebook 73533.
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- Henry Adams Bellows
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- 1923
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