Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 31
1923Wise a guest holds it to take to his heels,When mock of another he makes;But little he knows who laughs at the feast,Though he mocks in the midst of his foes.Hávamál · Hávamál proper
Henry Adams Bellows stanza 31
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Benjamin Thorpe · stanza 31
1866Clever thinks himselfthe guest who jeers a guest,if he takes to flight.Knows it not certainlyhe who prates at meat,whether he babbles among foes.Olive Bray · stanza 31
1908A guest thinks him witty who mocks at a guestand runs from his wrath away;but none can be sure who jests at a mealthat he makes not fun among foes.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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