Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 157
1923An eleventh I know, if needs I must leadTo the fight my long-loved friends;I sing in the shields, and in strength they goWhole to the field of fight,Whole from the field of fight,And whole they come thence home.Free to read · Built for close study
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An eleventh I know, if needs I must leadTo the fight my long-loved friends;I sing in the shields, and in strength they goWhole to the field of fight,Whole from the field of fight,And whole they come thence home.Hávamál, translated by Henry Adams Bellows, in The Poetic Edda (1923). Public-domain transcription sourced from Project Gutenberg ebook 73533.
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