Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 90
1923The love of women fickle of willIs like starting o’er ice with a steed unshod,A two-year-old restive and little tamed,Or steering a rudderless ship in a storm,Or, lame, hunting reindeer on slippery rocks.* * *Free to read · Built for close study
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The love of women fickle of willIs like starting o’er ice with a steed unshod,A two-year-old restive and little tamed,Or steering a rudderless ship in a storm,Or, lame, hunting reindeer on slippery rocks.* * *Hávamál, translated by Henry Adams Bellows, in The Poetic Edda (1923). Public-domain transcription sourced from Project Gutenberg ebook 73533.
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