Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 67
1923To their homes men would bid me hither and yon,If at meal-time I needed no meat,Or would hang two hams in my true friend’s house,Where only one I had eaten.Hávamál · Hávamál proper
Henry Adams Bellows stanza 67
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Benjamin Thorpe · stanza 67
1866Here and there I shouldhave been invited,if I a meal had needed;or two hams had hung,at that true friend’s,where of one I had eaten.Olive Bray · stanza 67
1908Here and there to a home I had haply been askedhad I needed no meat at my meals,or were two hams left hanging in the house of that friendwhere I had partaken of one.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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