Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 98
1923“Othin, again at evening come,If a woman thou wouldst win;Evil it were if others than weShould know of such a sin.”Hávamál · Billing’s daughter
Henry Adams Bellows stanza 98
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Benjamin Thorpe · stanza 98
1866“Yet nearer evemust thou, Odin, come,if thou wilt talk the maiden over;all will be disastrous,unless we aloneare privy to such misdeed.”Olive Bray · stanza 96
1908‘Yet nearer evening come thou, Odin,if thou wilt woo a maiden:all were undone save two knew alonesuch a secret deed of shame.’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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