Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 140
1923None made me happy with loaf or horn,And there below I looked;I took up the runes, shrieking I took them,And forthwith back I fell.Hávamál · Rúnatal
Henry Adams Bellows stanza 140
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Benjamin Thorpe · stanza 141
1866Bread no one gave me,nor a horn of drink,downward I peered,to runes applied myself,wailing learnt them,then fell down thence.Olive Bray · stanza 138
1908None refreshed me ever with food or drink,I peered right down in the deep;crying aloud I lifted the Runesthen back I fell from thence.Source
The Poetic Edda: Translated from the Icelandic with an Introduction and Notes
Hávamál, translated by Henry Adams Bellows, in The Poetic Edda (1923). Public-domain transcription sourced from Project Gutenberg ebook 73533.
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- Henry Adams Bellows
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- 1923
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