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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:With a worse man speak not three words in dispute,Ill fares the better oftWhen the worse man wields a sword.I counsel thee, etc.Even in three wordsquarrel not with a worse man:often the better yields,when the worse strikes.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:strive not in three words with a man worse than thee;oft the worst lays the best one low.Hávamál, translated by Henry Adams Bellows, in The Poetic Edda (1923). Public-domain transcription sourced from Project Gutenberg ebook 73533.
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