Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 158
1923A twelfth I know, if high on a treeI see a hanged man swing;So do I write and color the runesThat forth he fares,And to me talks.Hávamál · Ljóðatal
Henry Adams Bellows stanza 158
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Benjamin Thorpe · stanza 159
1866For the twelfth I know,if on a tree I seea corpse swinging from a halter,I can so graveand in runes depict,that the man shall walk,and with me converse.Olive Bray · stanza 156
1908Old Norse
Þat kannk et tolfta, ef sék á tré uppiváfa virgilná:svá ek ríst ok í rúnum fák,at sá gengr gumiEnglish translation
ok mǽlir viþ mik.A twelfth I know: if I see in a treea corpse from a halter hanging,such spells I write, and paint in runes,that the being descends and speaks.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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