Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 149
1923A third I know, if great is my needOf fetters to hold my foe;Blunt do I make mine enemy’s blade,Nor bites his sword or staff.Free to read · Built for close study
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A third I know, if great is my needOf fetters to hold my foe;Blunt do I make mine enemy’s blade,Nor bites his sword or staff.Hávamál, translated by Henry Adams Bellows, in The Poetic Edda (1923). Public-domain transcription sourced from Project Gutenberg ebook 73533.
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