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.Hávamál · Loddfáfnismál
Henry Adams Bellows stanza 118
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Benjamin Thorpe · stanza 120
1866I saw mortallywound a mana wicked woman’s words;a false tonguecaused his death,and most unrighteously.Olive Bray · stanza 117
1908Wounded to death, have I seen a manby the words of an evil woman;a lying tongue had bereft him of life,and all without reason of right.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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