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.Free to read · Built for close study
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Long 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, translated by Henry Adams Bellows, in The Poetic Edda (1923). Public-domain transcription sourced from Project Gutenberg ebook 73533.
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