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Stanza 71

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

Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 71

1923
The lame rides a horse, the handless is herdsman,The deaf in battle is bold;The blind man is better than one that is burned,No good can come of a corpse.
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