Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 158
1923A twelfth I know, if high on a treeI see a hanged man swing;So do I write and color the runesThat forth he fares,And to me talks.Free to read · Built for close study
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A twelfth I know, if high on a treeI see a hanged man swing;So do I write and color the runesThat forth he fares,And to me talks.Hávamál, translated by Henry Adams Bellows, in The Poetic Edda (1923). Public-domain transcription sourced from Project Gutenberg ebook 73533.
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