Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 70
1923It is better to live than to lie a corpse,The live man catches the cow;I saw flames rise for the rich man’s pyre,And before his door he lay dead.Free to read · Built for close study
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It is better to live than to lie a corpse,The live man catches the cow;I saw flames rise for the rich man’s pyre,And before his door he lay dead.Hávamál, translated by Henry Adams Bellows, in The Poetic Edda (1923). Public-domain transcription sourced from Project Gutenberg ebook 73533.
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