Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 71
1923The lame rides a horse, the handless is herdsman,The deaf in battle is bold;The blind man is better than one that is burned,No good can come of a corpse.Free to read · Built for close study
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The lame rides a horse, the handless is herdsman,The deaf in battle is bold;The blind man is better than one that is burned,No good can come of a corpse.Hávamál, translated by Henry Adams Bellows, in The Poetic Edda (1923). Public-domain transcription sourced from Project Gutenberg ebook 73533.
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