Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 100
1923So came I next when night it was,The warriors all were awake;With burning lights and waving brandsI learned my luckless way.Hávamál · Billing’s daughter
Henry Adams Bellows stanza 100
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Benjamin Thorpe · stanza 100
1866When next I camethe bold warriors wereall awake,with lights burning,and bearing torches:thus was the way to pleasure closed.Olive Bray · stanza 98
1908When I came ere long the war troop boldwere watching and waking all:with burning brands and torches bornethey showed me my sorrowful way.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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