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I rede thee, Loddfafnir! and hear thou my rede,—Profit thou hast if thou hearest,Great thy gain if thou learnest:A shoemaker be, or a maker of shafts,For only thy single self;If the shoe is ill made, or the shaft prove false,Then evil of thee men think.I counsel thee, etc.Be not a shoemaker,nor a shaftmaker,unless for thyself it be;for a shoe if ill made,or a shaft if crooked,will call down evil on thee.I counsel thee, Stray-Singer, accept my counsels,they will be thy boon if thou obey’st them,they will work thy weal if thou win’st them:be not a shoemaker nor yet a shaft makersave for thyself alone:let the shoe be misshapen, or crooked the shaft,and a curse on thy head will be called.Hávamál, translated by Henry Adams Bellows, in The Poetic Edda (1923). Public-domain transcription sourced from Project Gutenberg ebook 73533.
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