Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 91
1923Clear now will I speak, for I know them both,Men false to women are found;When fairest we speak, then falsest we think,Against wisdom we work with deceit.Hávamál · Counsel and reflections on love
Henry Adams Bellows stanza 91
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Benjamin Thorpe · stanza 91
1866Openly I now speak,because I both sexes know:unstable are men’s minds towards women;‘tis then we speak most fairwhen we most falsely think:that deceives even the cautious.Olive Bray · stanza 89
1908Now plainly I speak, since both I have seen;unfaithful is man to maid;we speak them fairest when thoughts are falsestand wile the wisest of hearts.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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- 1923
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