Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 66
1923Too early to many a meeting I came,And some too late have I sought;The beer was all drunk, or not yet brewed;Little the loathed man finds.Hávamál · Hávamál proper
Henry Adams Bellows stanza 66
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Benjamin Thorpe · stanza 66
1866Much too earlyI came to many places,but too late to others;the beer was drunk,or not ready:the disliked seldom hits the moment.Olive Bray · stanza 66
1908At many a feast I was far too late,and much too soon at some;drunk was the ale or yet unserved:never hits he the joint who is hated.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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