Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 156
1923A tenth I know, what time I seeHouse-riders flying on high;So can I work that wildly they go,Showing their true shapes,Hence to their own homes.Hávamál · Ljóðatal
Henry Adams Bellows stanza 156
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Benjamin Thorpe · stanza 157
1866For the tenth I know,if I see troll-wivessporting in air,I can so operatethat they will forsaketheir own forms,and their own minds.Olive Bray · stanza 154
1908A tenth I know: when at night the witchesride and sport in the air,such spells I weave that they wander homeout of skins and wits bewildered.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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- 1923
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