Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 49
1923My garments once in a field I gaveTo a pair of carven poles;Heroes they seemed when clothes they had,But the naked man is nought.Free to read · Built for close study
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My garments once in a field I gaveTo a pair of carven poles;Heroes they seemed when clothes they had,But the naked man is nought.Hávamál, translated by Henry Adams Bellows, in The Poetic Edda (1923). Public-domain transcription sourced from Project Gutenberg ebook 73533.
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