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I rede thee, Loddfafnir! and hear thou my rede,—Profit thou hast if thou hearest,Great thy gain if thou learnest:If a friend thou hast whom thou fully wilt trust,Then fare to find him oft;For brambles grow and waving grassOn the rarely trodden road.I counsel thee, etc.If thou knowest thou has a friend,whom thou well canst trust,go oft to visit him;for with brushwood overgrown,and with high grass,is the way that no one treads.I counsel thee, Stray-Singer, accept my counsels,they will be thy boon if thou obey’st them,they will work thy weal if thou win’st them:have thou a friend whom thou trustest well,fare thou to find him oft;for with brushwood grows and with grasses highthe path where no foot doth pass.Hávamál, translated by Henry Adams Bellows, in The Poetic Edda (1923). Public-domain transcription sourced from Project Gutenberg ebook 73533.
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