Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 105
1923The mouth of Rati made room for my passage,And space in the stone he gnawed;Above and below the giants’ paths lay,So rashly I risked my head.Hávamál · The mead of poetry
Henry Adams Bellows stanza 105
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Benjamin Thorpe · stanza 107
1866Rati’s mouth I causedto make a space,and to gnaw the rock;over and under mewere the Jötun’s ways:thus I my head did peril.Olive Bray · stanza 103
1908I bored me a road there with Rati’s tuskand made room to pass through the rock;while the ways of the Jötuns stretched over and underI dared my life for a draught.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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