Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 78
1923Cattle die, and kinsmen die,And so one dies one’s self;One thing I know that never dies,The fame of a dead man’s deeds.Free to read · Built for close study
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Cattle die, and kinsmen die,And so one dies one’s self;One thing I know that never dies,The fame of a dead man’s deeds.Hávamál, translated by Henry Adams Bellows, in The Poetic Edda (1923). Public-domain transcription sourced from Project Gutenberg ebook 73533.
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