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Stanza 140

The Poetic Edda: Translated from the Icelandic with an Introduction and Notes, 1923

Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 140

1923
None made me happy with loaf or horn,And there below I looked;I took up the runes, shrieking I took them,And forthwith back I fell.
The Poetic Edda: Translated from the Icelandic with an Introduction and NotesPublic domain in the United States
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