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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:Be never the first to break with thy friendThe bond that holds you both;Care eats the heart if thou canst not speakTo another all thy thought.I counsel thee, etc.With thy friendbe thou neverfirst to quarrel.Care gnaws the heart,if thou to no one canstthy whole mind disclose.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:be never the first with friend of thineto break the bond of fellowship;care shall gnaw thy heart if thou canst not tellall thy mind to another.Hávamál, translated by Henry Adams Bellows, in The Poetic Edda (1923). Public-domain transcription sourced from Project Gutenberg ebook 73533.
I rede thee, Loddfafnir! and hear thou my rede,— Profit thou hast if thou hearest, Great thy gain if thou learnest: A good man find to hold…
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