Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 76
1923Among Fitjung’s sons saw I well-stocked folds,—Now bear they the beggar’s staff;Wealth is as swift as a winking eye,Of friends the falsest it is.Hávamál · Hávamál proper
Henry Adams Bellows stanza 76
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Benjamin Thorpe · stanza 78
1866Full storehouses I sawat Dives’ sons’:now bear they the beggar’s staff.Such are riches;as is the twinkling of an eye:of friends they are most fickle.Olive Bray · stanza 77
1908Full-stocked folds had the Fatling’s sons,who bear now a beggar’s staff:brief is wealth, as the winking of an eye,most faithless ever of friends.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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