Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 124
1923Mingled is love when a man can speakTo another all his thought;Nought is so bad as false to be,No friend speaks only fair.Hávamál · Loddfáfnismál
Henry Adams Bellows stanza 124
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Benjamin Thorpe · stanza 126
1866There is a mingling of affection,where one can tellanother all his mind.Everything is betterthan being with the deceitful.He is not another’s friendwho ever says as he says.Olive Bray · stanza 123
1908There is mingling in friendship when man can utterall his whole mind to another;there is nought so vile as a fickle tongue;no friend is he who but flatters.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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