Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 29
1923Often he speaks who never is stillWith words that win no faith;The babbling tongue, if a bridle it find not,Oft for itself sings ill.Hávamál · Hávamál proper
Henry Adams Bellows stanza 29
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Benjamin Thorpe · stanza 29
1866He utters too manyfutile wordswho is never silent;a garrulous tongue,if it be not checked,sings often to its own harm.Olive Bray · stanza 29
1908Too many unstable words are spokenby him who ne’er holds his peace;the hasty tongue sings its own mishapif it be not bridled in.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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