Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 36
1923Better a house, though a hut it be,A man is master at home;A pair of goats and a patched-up roofAre better far than begging.Free to read · Built for close study
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Better a house, though a hut it be,A man is master at home;A pair of goats and a patched-up roofAre better far than begging.Hávamál, translated by Henry Adams Bellows, in The Poetic Edda (1923). Public-domain transcription sourced from Project Gutenberg ebook 73533.
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