Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 139
1923I ween that I hung on the windy tree,Hung there for nights full nine;With the spear I was wounded, and offered I wasTo Othin, myself to myself,On the tree that none may ever knowWhat root beneath it runs.Hávamál · Rúnatal
Henry Adams Bellows stanza 139
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Benjamin Thorpe · stanza 140
1866I know that I hung,on a wind-rocked tree,nine whole nights,with a spear wounded,and to Odin offered,myself to myself;on that tree,of which no one knowsfrom what root it springs.Olive Bray · stanza 137
1908I trow I hung on that windy Treenine whole days and nights,stabbed with a spear, offered to Odin,myself to mine own self given,high on that Tree of which none hath heardfrom what roots it rises to heaven.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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