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LinesIt is time to chant from the chanter’s stool;By the wells of Urth I was,I saw and was silent, I saw and thought,And heard the speech of Hor.(Of runes heard I words, nor were counsels wanting,At the hall of Hor,In the hall of Hor;Such was the speech I heard.)

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It is time to chant from the chanter’s stool; By the wells of Urth I was, I saw and was silent, I saw and thought, And heard the speech of Hor. (Of runes heard I words, nor were counsels wanting, At the hall of Hor, In the hall of Hor; Such was the speech I heard.)

Hávamál, Henry Adams Bellows, stanza 111. Public domain in the United States.

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