Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 3
1923Fire he needs who with frozen kneesHas come from the cold without;Food and clothes must the farer have,The man from the mountains come.Hávamál · Hávamál proper
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Benjamin Thorpe · stanza 3
1866Fire is needfulto him who is come in,and whose knees are frozen;food and raimenta man requires,who o’er the fell has travelled.Olive Bray · stanza 3
1908Old Norse
Elds es þörf þeims inn es kominnauk á kné kalinn;matar ok váþa es manni þörfþeims hefr of fjall farit.English translation
He hath need of fire, who now is come,numbed with cold to the knee;food and clothing the wanderer craveswho has fared o’er the rimy fell.Source
The Poetic Edda: Translated from the Icelandic with an Introduction and Notes
Hávamál, translated by Henry Adams Bellows, in The Poetic Edda (1923). Public-domain transcription sourced from Project Gutenberg ebook 73533.
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- Henry Adams Bellows
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- 1923
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- Public domain in the United States
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