Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 160
1923A fourteenth I know, if fain I would nameTo men the mighty gods;All know I well of the gods and elves,—Few be the fools know this.Hávamál · Ljóðatal
Henry Adams Bellows stanza 160
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Benjamin Thorpe · stanza 161
1866For the fourteenth I know,if in the society of menI have to enumerate the gods,Æsir and Alfar,I know the distinctions of all.This few unskilled can do.Olive Bray · stanza 158
1908A fourteenth I know: if I needs must numberthe Powers to the people of men,I know all the nature of gods and of elveswhich none can know untaught.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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