Benjamin Thorpe · stanza 147
1866‘Tis better not to praythan too much offer;a gift ever looks to a return.‘Tis better not to sendthan too much consume.So Thund gravedbefore the origin of men,where he ascended,to whence he afterwards came.The Edda of Sæmund the Learned, 1866
‘Tis better not to praythan too much offer;a gift ever looks to a return.‘Tis better not to sendthan too much consume.So Thund gravedbefore the origin of men,where he ascended,to whence he afterwards came.