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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 thou fain wouldst win a woman’s love,And gladness get from her,Fair be thy promise and well fulfilled;None loathes what good he gets.If thou wilt induce a good womanto pleasant converse,thou must promise fair,and hold to it;no one turns from good if it can be got.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:would thou win joy of a gentle maiden,and lure to whispering of love,thou shalt make fair promise, and let it be fast,—none will scorn their weal who can win it.Hávamál, translated by Henry Adams Bellows, in The Poetic Edda (1923). Public-domain transcription sourced from Project Gutenberg ebook 73533.
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