Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 118
1923I saw a man who was wounded soreBy an evil woman’s word;A lying tongue his death-blow launched,And no word of truth there was.Free to read · Built for close study
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I saw a man who was wounded soreBy an evil woman’s word;A lying tongue his death-blow launched,And no word of truth there was.Hávamál, translated by Henry Adams Bellows, in The Poetic Edda (1923). Public-domain transcription sourced from Project Gutenberg ebook 73533.
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