Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 152
1923A sixth I know, if harm one seeksWith a sapling’s roots to send me;The hero himself who wreaks his hateShall taste the ill ere I.Hávamál · Ljóðatal
Henry Adams Bellows stanza 152
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Benjamin Thorpe · stanza 153
1866For the sixth I know,if one wounds mewith a green tree’s roots;also if a mandeclares hatred to me,harm shall consume them sooner than me.Olive Bray · stanza 150
1908A sixth I know: when some thane would harm mein runes on a moist tree’s root,on his head alone shall light the illsof the curse that he called upon mine.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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