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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:Scorn not ever the gray-haired singer,Oft do the old speak good;(Oft from shrivelled skin come skillful counsels,Though it hang with the hides,And flap with the pelts,And is blown with the bellies.)Hávamál, translated by Henry Adams Bellows, in The Poetic Edda (1923). Public-domain transcription sourced from Project Gutenberg ebook 73533.
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