Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 97
1923Billing’s daughter I found on her bed,In slumber bright as the sun;Empty appeared an earl’s estateWithout that form so fair.Hávamál · Billing’s daughter
Henry Adams Bellows stanza 97
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Benjamin Thorpe · stanza 97
1866Billing’s lasson her couch I found,sun-bright, sleeping.A prince’s joyto me seemed naught,if not with that form to live.Olive Bray · stanza 95
1908Billing’s daughter I found on her bed,fairer than sunlight sleeping,and the sweets of lordship seemed to me nought,save I lived with that lovely form.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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