Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 101
1923At morning then, when once more I came,And all were sleeping still,A dog I found in the fair one’s place,Bound there upon her bed.Hávamál · Billing’s daughter
Henry Adams Bellows stanza 101
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Benjamin Thorpe · stanza 101
1866But at the approach of morn,when again I came,the household all was sleeping;the good damsel’s dogalone I foundtied to the bed.Olive Bray · stanza 99
1908Yet nearer morning I went, once more,—the housefolk slept in the hall,but soon I found a barking dogtied fast to that fair maid’s couch.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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