Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 71
1923The lame rides a horse, the handless is herdsman,The deaf in battle is bold;The blind man is better than one that is burned,No good can come of a corpse.Hávamál · Hávamál proper
Henry Adams Bellows stanza 71
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Benjamin Thorpe · stanza 71
1866The halt can ride on horseback,the one-handed drive cattle;the deaf fight and be useful:to be blind is betterthan to be burnt:no one gets good from a corpse.Olive Bray · stanza 71
1908The lame can ride rose, the handless drive cattle,the deaf one can fight and prevail,‘tis happier for the blind than for him on the bale-fire,for no man hath care for a corpse.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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