Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 84
1923A man shall trust not the oath of a maid,Nor the word a woman speaks;For their hearts on a whirling wheel were fashioned,And fickle their breasts were formed.* * *Free to read · Built for close study
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A man shall trust not the oath of a maid,Nor the word a woman speaks;For their hearts on a whirling wheel were fashioned,And fickle their breasts were formed.* * *Hávamál, translated by Henry Adams Bellows, in The Poetic Edda (1923). Public-domain transcription sourced from Project Gutenberg ebook 73533.
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