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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:Look not up when the battle is on,—(Like madmen the sons of men become,—)Lest men bewitch thy wits.I counsel thee, etc.In a battlelook not up,(like swinethe sons of men become)that men may not fascinate 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:look not up in battle, when men are as beasts,lest the wights bewitch thee with spells.Hávamál, translated by Henry Adams Bellows, in The Poetic Edda (1923). Public-domain transcription sourced from Project Gutenberg ebook 73533.
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