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Stanza 81

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

Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 81

1923
Give praise to the day at evening, to a woman on her pyre,To a weapon which is tried, to a maid at wedlock,To ice when it is crossed, to ale that is drunk.
The Poetic Edda: Translated from the Icelandic with an Introduction and NotesPublic domain in the United States
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