Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 164
1923Long these songs thou shalt, Loddfafnir,Seek in vain to sing;Yet good it were if thou mightest get them,Well, if thou wouldst them learn,Help, if thou hadst them.Hávamál · Ljóðatal
Henry Adams Bellows stanza 164
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Benjamin Thorpe · stanza 164
1866For the seventeenth I know,that that young maiden willreluctantly avoid me.These songs, Loddfafnir!thou wilt long have lacked;yet it may be good if thou understandest them,profitable if thou learnest them.Olive Bray · stanza 162
1908These songs, Stray-Singer, which man’s son knows not,long shalt thou lack in life,though thy weal if thou win’st them, thy boon if thou obey’st themthy good if haply thou gain’st them.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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