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.* * *Hávamál · Counsel and reflections on love
Henry Adams Bellows stanza 90
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Benjamin Thorpe · stanza 90
1866Such is the love of women,who falsehood meditate,as if one drove not rough-shod,on slippery ice,a spirited two-years oldand unbroken horse;or as in a raging storma helmless ship is beaten;or as if the halt were set to catcha reindeer in the thawing fell.Olive Bray · stanza 88
1908Like the love of women whose thoughts are liesis the driving un-roughshod o’er slippery iceof a two year old, ill-tamed and gay;or in a wild wind steering a helmless ship,or the lame catching reindeer in the rime-thawed fell.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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