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Better no prayer than too big an offering,By thy getting measure thy gift;Better is none than too big a sacrifice,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .So Thund of old wrote ere man’s race began,Where he rose on high when home he came.* * *Hávamál, translated by Henry Adams Bellows, in The Poetic Edda (1923). Public-domain transcription sourced from Project Gutenberg ebook 73533.
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