Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 77
1923Cattle die, and kinsmen die,And so one dies one’s self;But a noble name will never die,If good renown one gets.Free to read · Built for close study
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Cattle die, and kinsmen die,And so one dies one’s self;But a noble name will never die,If good renown one gets.Hávamál, translated by Henry Adams Bellows, in The Poetic Edda (1923). Public-domain transcription sourced from Project Gutenberg ebook 73533.
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