tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55194868577575752902024-03-13T19:58:23.628-07:00Skald of ShadowsShadow Skaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01159269242580675769noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519486857757575290.post-36588358301529540202015-07-21T21:16:00.002-07:002015-07-21T21:16:28.672-07:00The Hávamál<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 18px;">For a long time, words were not written among Norsemen, but instead passed on from elder to child, and from them to their children, and so on. There is a poem passed down through the ages from Norseman to Norseman, that speaks of lessons and wisdom to live by. This is the </span>Hávamál<span style="font-size: 18px;">. It is p</span>resented as a single poem in the 13th century Codex Regius, a collection of Old Norse poems from the Viking age that we were fortunate someone who finally inscribed the spoken word, did so, and is the only surviving source for Hávamál<i>.</i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 24pt;">The <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack">Hávamál</a></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Young and alone on a
long road,<br />
Once I lost my way:<br />
Rich I felt when I found another;<br />
Man rejoices in man,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">A kind word need not
cost much,<br />
The price of praise can be cheap:<br />
With half a loaf and an empty cup<br />
I found myself a friend,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Two wooden stakes stood
on the plain,<br />
On them I hung my clothes:<br />
Draped in linen, they looked well born,<br />
But, naked, I was a nobody<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Too early to many homes
I came,<br />
Too late, it seemed, to some:<br />
The ale was finished or else un-brewed,<br />
The unpopular cannot please,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Some would invite me to
visit their homes,<br />
But none thought I needed a meal,<br />
As though I had eaten a whole joint,<br />
Just before with a friend who had two<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The man who stands at a
strange threshold,<br />
Should be cautious before he cross it,<br />
Glance this way and that:<br />
Who knows beforehand what foes may sit<br />
Awaiting him in the hall?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Greetings to the
host,<br />
The guest has arrived,<br />
In which seat shall he sit?<br />
Rash is he who at unknown doors<br />
Relies on his good luck,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Fire is needed by the
newcomer<br />
Whose knees are frozen numb;<br />
Meat and clean linen a man needs<br />
Who has fared across the fells,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Water, too, that he may
wash before eating, </span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;">Handcloth's</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> and a hearty welcome, </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
Courteous words, then courteous silence </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
That he may tell his tale,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Who travels widely needs
his wits about him,<br />
The stupid should stay at home:<br />
The ignorant man is often laughed at<br />
When he sits at meat with the sage,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Of his knowledge a man
should never boast,<br />
Rather be sparing of speech<br />
When to his house a wiser comes:<br />
Seldom do those who are silent Make mistakes;<br />
mother wit Is ever a faithful friend,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">A guest should be
courteous<br />
When he comes to the table<br />
And sit in wary silence,<br />
His ears attentive,<br />
his eyes alert:<br />
So he protects himself,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Fortunate is he who is </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">favored</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> in his lifetime </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
With praise and words of wisdom: </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
Evil counsel is often given </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
By those of evil heart,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Blessed is he who in his
own lifetime<br />
Is awarded praise and wit,<br />
For ill counsel is often given<br />
By mortal men to each other,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Better gear than good
sense </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
A </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">traveler</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> cannot carry, </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
Better than riches for a wretched man, </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
Far from his own home,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Better gear than good
sense<br />
A traveler cannot carry,<br />
A more tedious burden than too much drink<br />
A traveler cannot carry,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Less good than belief
would have it<br />
Is mead for the sons of men:<br />
A man knows less the more he drinks,<br />
Becomes a befuddled fool,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I-forget is the name men
give the heron<br />
Who hovers over the fast:<br />
Fettered I was in his feathers that night,<br />
When a guest in Gunnlod's court<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Drunk I got, dead drunk,<br />
When Fjalar the wise was with me:<br />
Best is the banquet one looks back on after,<br />
And remembers all that happened,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Silence becomes the Son
of a prince,<br />
To be silent but brave in battle:<br />
It befits a man to be merry and glad<br />
Until the day of his death,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The coward believes he
will live forever<br />
If he holds back in the battle,<br />
But in old age he shall have no peace<br />
Though spears have spared his limbs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">When he meets friends,
the fool gapes, </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
Is shy and sheepish at first, </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
Then he sips his mead and immediately </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
All know what an oaf he is, </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
He who has seen and suffered much, </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
And knows the ways of the world, </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
Who has </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">traveled</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">', can tell what spirit </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
Governs the men he meets, </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
Drink your mead, but in moderation, </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
Talk sense or be silent: </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
No man is called discourteous who goes </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
To bed at an early hour<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">A gluttonous man who
guzzles away<br />
Brings sorrow on himself:<br />
At the table of the wise he is taunted often,<br />
Mocked for his bloated belly,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The herd knows its
homing time,<br />
And leaves the grazing ground:<br />
But the glutton never knows how much<br />
His belly is able to hold,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">An ill tempered, unhappy
man<br />
Ridicules all he hears,<br />
Makes fun of others, refusing always<br />
To see the faults in himself<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Foolish is he who frets
at night,<br />
And lies awake to worry'<br />
A weary man when morning comes,<br />
He finds all as bad as before,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The fool thinks that
those who laugh<br />
At him are all his friends,<br />
Unaware when he sits with wiser men<br />
How ill they speak of him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The fool thinks that
those who laugh<br />
At him are all his friends:<br />
When he comes to the Thing and calls for support,<br />
Few spokesmen he finds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The fool who fancies he
is full of wisdom<br />
While he sits by his hearth at home.<br />
Quickly finds when questioned by others .<br />
That he knows nothing at all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The ignorant booby had
best be silent<br />
When he moves among other men,<br />
No one will know what a nit-wit he is<br />
Until he begins to talk;<br />
No one knows less what a nit-wit he is<br />
Than the man who talks too much.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">To ask well, to answer
rightly,<br />
Are the marks of a wise man:<br />
Men must speak of men's deeds,<br />
What happens may not be hidden.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Wise is he not who is
never silent,<br />
Mouthing meaningless words:<br />
A glib tongue that goes on chattering<br />
Sings to its own harm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">A man among friends
should not mock another:<br />
Many believe the man<br />
Who is not questioned to know much<br />
And so he escapes their scorn.<br />
An early meal a man should take<br />
Before he visits friends,<br />
Lest, when he gets there,<br />
he go hungry,<br />
Afraid to ask for food.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The fastest friends may
fall out<br />
When they sit at the banquet-board:<br />
It is, and shall be, a shameful thing<br />
When guest quarrels with guest,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The wise guest has his
way of dealing<br />
With those who taunt him at table:<br />
He smiles through the meal,<br />
not seeming to hear<br />
The twaddle talked by his foes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The tactful guest will
take his leave Early,<br />
not linger long:<br />
He starts to stink who outstays his welcome<br />
In a hall that is not his own.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">A small hut of one' s
own is better,<br />
A man is his master at home:<br />
A couple of goats and a corded roof<br />
Still are better than begging.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">A small hut of one's own
is better,<br />
A man is his master at home:<br />
His heart bleeds in the beggar who must<br />
Ask at each meal for meat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">A wayfarer should not
walk unarmed,<br />
But have his weapons to hand:<br />
He knows not when he may need a spear,<br />
Or what menace meet on the road.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">No man is so generous he
will jib at accepting<br />
A gift in return for a gift,<br />
No man so rich that it really gives him<br />
Pain to be repaid.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Once he has won wealth
enough,<br />
A man should not crave for more:<br />
What he saves for friends, foes may take;<br />
Hopes are often liars.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">With presents friends
should please each other,<br />
With a shield or a costly coat:<br />
Mutual giving makes for friendship,<br />
So long as life goes well,<br />
A man should be loyal through life to friends,<br />
To them and to friends of theirs,<br />
But never shall a man make offer<br />
Of friendship to his foes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">A man should be loyal
through life to friends,<br />
And return gift for gift,<br />
Laugh when they laugh,<br />
but with lies repay<br />
A false foe who lies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">If you find a friend you
fully trust<br />
And wish for his good-will,<br />
exchange thoughts,<br />
exchange gifts,<br />
Go often to his house.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">If you deal with another
you don't trust<br />
But wish for his good-will,<br />
Be fair in speech but false in thought<br />
And give him lie for lie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Even with one you
ill-trust<br />
And doubt what he means to do,<br />
False words with fair smiles<br />
May get you the gift you desire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">To a false friend the
footpath winds<br />
Though his house be on the highway.<br />
To a sure friend there is a short cut,<br />
Though he live a long way off.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Hotter than fire among
false hearts burns<br />
Friendship for five days,<br />
But suddenly slackens when the sixth dawns:<br />
Feeble their friendship then.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The generous and bold
have the best lives,<br />
Are seldom beset by cares, ,<br />
But the base man sees bogies everywhere<br />
And the miser pines for presents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The young fir that falls
and rots<br />
Having neither needles nor bark,<br />
So is the fate of the friendless man:<br />
Why should he live long?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Little a sand-grain,
little a dew drop,<br />
Little the minds of men:<br />All men are not equal in wisdom,<br />
The half-wise are everywhere<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">It is best for man to be
middle-wise,<br />
Not over cunning and clever:<br />
The fairest life is led by those<br />
Who are deft at all they do.<br />
It is best for man to be middle-wise,<br />
Not over cunning and clever:<br />
No man is able to know his future,<br />
So let him sleep in peace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">It is best for man to be
middle-wise,<br />
Not over cunning and clever:<br />
The learned man whose lore is deep<br />
Is seldom happy at heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Brand kindles brand till
they burn out,<br />
Flame is quickened by flame:<br />
One man from another is known by his speech<br />
The simpleton by his silence.<br />
Early shall he rise who has designs<br />
On another's land or life:<br />
His prey escapes the prone wolf,<br />
The sleeper is seldom victorious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Early shall he rise who
rules few servants,<br />
And set to work at once:<br />
Much is lost by the late sleeper,<br />
Wealth is won by the swift,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">A man should know how
many logs<br />
And strips of bark from the birch<br />
To stock in autumn, that he may have enough<br />
Wood for his winter fires.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Washed and fed,<br />
one may fare to the Thing:<br />
Though one's clothes be the worse for Wear,<br />
None need be ashamed of his shoes or hose,<br />
Nor of the horse he owns,<br />
Although no thoroughbred.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">As the eagle who comes
to the ocean shore, </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
Sniffs and hangs her head, </span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;">Dumbfounded</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> is he who finds at the Thing </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
No supporters to plead his case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">It is safe to tell a
secret to one,<br />
Risky to tell it to two,<br />
To tell it to three is thoughtless folly,<br />
Everyone else will know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Often words uttered to
another<br />
Have reaped an ill harvest:<br />
Two beat one, the tongue is head's bane,<br />
Pockets of fur hide fists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Moderate at council
should a man be,<br />
Not brutal and over bearing:<br />
Among the bold the bully will find<br />
Others as bold as he.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">These things are thought
the best:<br />
Fire, the sight of the sun,<br />
Good health with the gift to keep it,<br />
And a life that avoids vice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Not all sick men are
utterly wretched:<br />
Some are blessed with sons,<br />
Some with friends,<br />
some with riches,<br />
Some with worthy works.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The halt can manage a
horse,<br />
the handless a flock,<br />
The deaf be a doughty fighter,<br />
To be blind is better than to burn on a pyre:<br />
There is nothing the dead can do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">It is always better to
be alive,<br />
The living can keep a cow.<br />
Fire, I saw, warming a wealthy man,<br />
With a cold corpse at his door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">A son is a blessing,
though born late<br />
To a father no longer alive:<br />
Stones would seldom stand by the highway<br />
If sons did not set them there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">He welcomes the night
who has enough provisions<br />
Short are the sails of a ship,<br />
Dangerous the dark in autumn,<br />
The wind may veer within five days,<br />
And many times in a month.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The half wit does not
know that gold </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
Makes apes of many men: </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
One is rich, one is </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">poor</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
There is no blame in that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Cattle die, kindred
die,<br />
Every man is mortal:<br />
But the good name never dies<br />
Of one who has done well<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Cattle die, kindred
die,<br />
Every man is mortal:<br />
But I know one thing that never dies,<br />
The glory of the great dead<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Fields and flocks had
Fitjung's sons,<br />
Who now carry begging bowls:<br />
Wealth may vanish in the wink of an eye,<br />
Gold is the falsest of friends.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">In the fool who acquires
cattle and lands,<br />
Or wins a woman's love,<br />
His wisdom wanes with his waxing pride,<br />
He sinks from sense to conceit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Now is answered what you
ask of the runes,<br />
Graven by the gods,<br />
Made by the All Father,<br />
Sent by the powerful sage:<br />
lt. is best for man to remain silent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">For these things give
thanks at nightfall:<br />
The day gone, a guttered torch,<br />
A sword tested, the troth of a maid,<br />
Ice crossed, ale drunk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Hew wood in
wind-time,<br />
in fine weather sail,<br />
Tell in the night-time tales to house-girls,<br />
For too many eyes are open by day:<br />
From a ship expect speed, from a shield, cover,<br />
Keenness from a sword,<br />
but a kiss from a girl.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Drink ale by the hearth,
over ice glide,<br />
Buy a stained sword, buy a starving mare<br />
To fatten at home: and fatten the watch-dog.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Trust not an acre early
sown,<br />
Nor praise a son too soon:<br />
Weather rules the acre, wit the son,<br />
Both are exposed to peril,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">A snapping bow, a
burning flame,<br />
A grinning wolf, a grunting boar,<br />
A raucous crow, a rootless tree,<br />
A breaking wave, a boiling kettle,<br />
A flying arrow, an ebbing tide,<br />
A coiled adder, the ice of a night,<br />
A bride's bed talk, a broad sword,<br />
A bear's play, a prince' s children,<br />
A witch' s welcome, the wit of a slave,<br />
A sick calf, a corpse still fresh,<br />
A brother's killer encountered upon<br />
The highway a house half-burned,<br />
A racing stallion who has wrenched a leg,<br />
Are never safe: let no man trust them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">No man should trust a
maiden's words,<br />
Nor what a woman speaks:<br />
Spun on a wheel were women's hearts,<br />
In their breasts was implanted caprice,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">To love a woman whose
ways are false<br />
Is like sledding over slippery ice<br />
With unshod horses out of control,<br />
Badly trained two-year-olds,<br />
Or drifting rudderless on a rough sea,<br />
Or catching a reindeer with a crippled hand<br />
On a thawing hillside: think not to do it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Naked I may speak now
for I know both:<br />
Men are treacherous too<br />
Fairest we speak when falsest we think:<br />
many a maid is deceived.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Gallantly shall he speak
and gifts bring<br />
Who wishes for woman's love:<br />
praise the features of the fair girl,<br />
Who courts well will conquer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Never reproach another
for his love:<br />
It happens often enough<br />
That beauty ensnares with desire the wise<br />
While the foolish remain unmoved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Never reproach the
plight of another,<br />
For it happens to many men:<br />
Strong desire may stupefy heroes,<br />
Dull the wits of the wise<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The mind alone knows
what is near the heart,<br />
Each is his own judge:<br />
The worst sickness for a wise man<br />
Is to crave what he cannot enjoy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">So I learned when I sat
in the reeds,<br />
Hoping to have my desire:<br />
Lovely was the flesh of that fair girl,<br />
But nothing I hoped for happened.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I saw on a bed Billing's
daughter,<br />
Sun white, asleep:<br />
No greater delight I longed for then<br />
Than to lie in her lovely arms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">"Come" Odhinn,
after nightfall<br />
If you wish for a meeting with me:<br />
All would be lost if anyone saw us<br />
And learned that we were lovers."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Afire with longing"
I left her then,<br />
Deceived by her soft words:<br />
I thought my wooing had won the maid,<br />
That I would have my way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">After nightfall I
hurried back,<br />
But the warriors were all awake,<br />
Lights were burning, blazing torches:<br />
So false proved the path<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Towards daybreak back I
came<br />
The guards were sound asleep:<br />
I found then that the fair woman<br />
Had tied a bitch to her bed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Many a girl when one
gets to know her<br />
Proves to be fickle and false:<br />
That treacherous maiden taught me a lesson,<br />
The crafty woman covered me with shame"<br />
That was all I got from her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Let a man with his
guests be glad and merry,<br />
Modest a man should be"<br />
But talk well if he intends to be wise<br />
And expects praise from men:<br />
Fimbul fambi is the fool called "<br />
Unable to open his mouth.<br />
Fruitless my errand, had I been silent<br />
When I came to Suttung's courts:<br />
With spirited words I spoke to my profit<br />
In the hall of the aged giant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Rati had gnawed a narrow
passage,<br />
Chewed a channel through stone,<br />
A path around the roads of giants:<br />
I was like to lose my head<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Gunnlod sat me in the
golden seat,<br />
Poured me precious mead:<br />
Ill reward she had from me for that,<br />
For her proud and passionate heart,<br />
Her brooding foreboding spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">What I won from her I
have well used:<br />
I have waxed in wisdom since I came back,<br />
bringing to Asgard Odrerir,<br />
the sacred draught.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Hardly would I have come
home alive<br />
From the garth of the grim troll,<br />
Had Gunnlod not helped me, the good woman,<br />
Who wrapped her arms around me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The following day the
Frost Giants came,<br />
Walked into Har's hall To ask for Har's advice:<br />
Had Bolverk they asked, come back to his friends,<br />
Or had he been slain by Suttung?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Odhinn, they said, swore
an oath on his ring:<br />
Who from now on will trust him?<br />
By fraud at the feast he befuddled Suttung<br />
And brought grief to Gunnlod.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">It is time to sing in
the seat of the wise,<br />
Of what at Urd's Well I saw in silence,<br />
saw and thought on.<br />
Long I listened to men<br />
Runes heard spoken, (counsels revealed.)<br />
At Har's hall, In Har's hall:<br />
There I heard this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Loddfafnir, listen to my
counsel:<br />
You will fare well if you follow it,<br />
It will help you much if you heed it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Never rise at night
unless you need to spy<br />
Or to ease yourself in the outhouse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Shun a woman, wise in
magic,<br />
Her bed and her embraces:<br />
If she cast a spell, you will care no longer<br />
To meet and speak with men,<br />
Desire no food, desire no pleasure,<br />
In sorrow fall asleep.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Never seduce another's
wife,<br />
Never make her your mistress.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">If you must journey to
mountains and firths,<br />
Take food and fodder with you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Never open your heart to
an evil man </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
When fortune does not </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">favor</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> you: </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
From an evil man, if you make him your friend, </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
You will get evil for good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I saw a warrior wounded
fatally<br />
By the words of an evil woman<br />
Her cunning tongue caused his death,<br />
Though what she alleged was a lie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">If you know a friend you
can fully trust,<br />
Go often to his house<br />
Grass and brambles grow quickly<br />
Upon the untrodden track.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">With a good man it is
good to talk,<br />
Make him your fast friend:<br />
But waste no words on a witless oaf,<br />
Nor sit with a senseless ape.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Cherish those near you,
never be<br />
The first to break with a friend:<br />
Care eats him who can no longer<br />
Open his heart to another.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">An evil man, if you make
him your friend,<br />
Will give you evil for good:<br />
A good man, if you make him your friend"<br />
Will praise you in every place,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Affection is mutual when
men can open<br />
All their heart to each other:<br />
He whose words are always fair<br />
Is untrue and not to be trusted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Bandy no speech with a
bad man:<br />
Often the better is beaten<br />
In a word fight by the worse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Be not a cobbler nor a
carver of shafts,<br />
Except it be for yourself:<br />
If a shoe fit ill or a shaft be crooked"<br />
The maker gets curses and kicks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">If aware that another is
wicked, say so:<br />
Make no truce or treaty with foes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Never share in the
shamefully gotten,<br />
But allow yourself what is lawful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Never lift your eyes and
look up in battle,<br />
Lest the heroes enchant you,<br />
who can change warriors<br />
Suddenly into hogs,<br />
With a good woman, if you wish to enjoy<br />
Her words and her good will,<br />
Pledge her fairly and be faithful to it:<br />
Enjoy the good you are given,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Be not over wary, but
wary enough,<br />
First, of the foaming ale,<br />
Second, of a woman wed to another,<br />
Third, of the tricks of thieves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Mock not the </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">traveler</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> met On the road, </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
Nor maliciously laugh at the guest: </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
Scoff not at guests nor to the gate chase them, </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
But relieve the lonely and wretched,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The sitters in the hall
seldom know<br />
The kin of the new-comer:<br />
The best man is marred by faults,<br />
The worst is not without worth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Never laugh at the old
when they offer counsel, </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
Often their words are wise: </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
From </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">shriveled</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> skin, from scraggy things </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
That hand among the hides </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
And move amid the guts, </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
Clear words often come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Heavy the beam above the
door;<br />
Hang a horse-shoe On it<br />
Against ill-luck, lest it should suddenly<br />
Crash and crush your guests.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Medicines exist against
many evils:<br />
Earth against drunkenness, heather against worms<br />
Oak against costiveness, corn against sorcery,<br />
Spurred rye against rupture, runes against bales<br />
The moon against feuds, fire against sickness,<br />
Earth makes harmless the floods.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Wounded I hung on a
wind-swept gallows<br />
For nine long nights,<br />
Pierced by a spear, pledged to Odhinn,<br />
Offered, myself to myself<br />
The wisest know not from whence spring<br />
The roots of that ancient rood<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">They gave me no
bread,<br />
They gave me no mead,<br />
I looked down;<br />
with a loud cry<br />
I took up runes;<br />
from that tree I fell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Nine lays of power<br />
I learned from the famous Bolthor, Bestla' s father:<br />
He poured me a draught of precious mead,<br />
Mixed with magic Odrerir.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Waxed and throve
well;<br />
Word from word gave words to me,<br />
Deed from deed gave deeds to me,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Runes you will find, and
readable staves,<br />
Very strong staves,<br />
Very stout staves,<br />
Staves that Bolthor stained,<br />
Made by mighty powers,<br />
Graven by the prophetic god,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">For the gods by Odhinn,
for the elves by Dain,<br />
By Dvalin, too, for the dwarves,<br />
By Asvid for the hateful giants,<br />
And some I carved myself:<br />
Thund, before man was made, scratched them,<br />
Who rose first, fell thereafter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Know how to cut them,
know how to read them,<br />
Know how to stain them, know how to prove them,<br />
Know how to evoke them, know how to score them,<br />
Know how to send them" know how to send them,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Better not to ask than
to over-pledge<br />
As a gift that demands a gift"<br />
Better not to send than to slay too many,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The first charm I know
is unknown to rulers<br />
Or any of human kind;<br />
Help it is named,<br />
for help it can give In hours of sorrow and anguish.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I know a second that the
sons of men<br />
Must learn who wish to be leeches.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I know a third: in the
thick of battle,<br />
If my need be great enough,<br />
It will blunt the edges of enemy swords,<br />
Their weapons will make no wounds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I know a fourth:<br />
it will free me quickly<br />
If foes should bind me fast<br />
With strong chains, a chant that makes Fetters spring from the feet,<br />
Bonds burst from the hands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I know a fifth: no
flying arrow,<br />
Aimed to bring harm to men,<br />
Flies too fast for my fingers to catch it<br />
And hold it in mid-air.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I know a sixth:<br />
it will save me if a man<br />
Cut runes on a sapling' s Roots<br />
With intent to harm; it turns the spell;<br />
The hater is harmed, not me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">If I see the hall<br />
Ablaze around my bench mates,<br />
Though hot the flames, they shall feel nothing,<br />
If I choose to chant the spell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I know an eighth:<br />
that all are glad of,<br />
Most useful to men:<br />
If hate fester in the heart of a warrior,<br />
It will soon calm and cure him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I know a ninth: </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
when need I have </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
To shelter my ship on the flood, </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
The wind it calms, the waves it </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">smoothed</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
And puts the sea to sleep,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I know a tenth:<br />
if troublesome ghosts<br />
Ride the rafters aloft,<br />
I can work it so they wander astray,<br />
Unable to find their forms,<br />
Unable to find their homes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I know an
eleventh:<br />
when I lead to battle Old comrades in-arms,<br />
I have only to chant it behind my shield,<br />
And unwounded they go to war,<br />
Unwounded they come from war,<br />
U unscathed wherever they are.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I know a twelfth:<br />
If a tree bear<br />
A man hanged in a halter,<br />
I can carve and stain strong runes<br />
That will cause the corpse to speak,<br />
Reply to whatever I ask.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I know a
thirteenth<br />
if I throw a cup Of water over a warrior,<br />
He shall not fall in the fiercest battle,<br />
Nor sink beneath the sword,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I know a fourteenth,
that few know:<br />
If I tell a troop of warriors<br />
About the high ones, elves and gods,<br />
I can name them one by one.<br />
(Few can the nit-wit name.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I know a
fifteenth,<br />
that first Thjodrerir<br />
Sang before Delling's doors,<br />
Giving power to gods, prowess to elves,<br />
Fore-sight to Hroptatyr Odhinn,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I know a
sixteenth:<br />
if I see a girl<br />
With whom it would please me to play,<br />
I can turn her thoughts, can touch the heart<br />
Of any white armed woman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I know a
seventeenth:<br />
if I sing it,<br />
the young Girl will be slow to forsake me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I know an eighteenth that
I never tell<br />
To maiden or wife of man,<br />
A secret I hide from all<br />
Except the love who lies in my arms,<br />
Or else my own sister.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">To learn to sing them,
Loddfafnir,<br />
Will take you a long time,<br />
Though helpful they are if you understand them,<br />
Useful if you use them,<br />
Needful if you need them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The Wise One has spoken
words in the hall,<br />
Needful for men to know,<br />
Unneedful for trolls to know:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Hail to the
speaker,<br />
Hail to the knower,<br />
Joy to him who has understood,<br />
Delight to those who have listened.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Shadow Skaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01159269242580675769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519486857757575290.post-74338223359532172432015-07-21T20:57:00.000-07:002015-07-21T20:58:41.055-07:00Buyer's Lament<div class="MsoNormal">
Aimless gluttony...<br />
Hunger for nothing of worth,<br />
Yet I still consume.</div>
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<br />
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The gods fade and die.<br />
The dollar is the new faith.<br />
Evil laughs in glee.</div>
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- P.W.H.</div>
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Skald of Shadows</div>
Shadow Skaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01159269242580675769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519486857757575290.post-21378882494848024742015-07-21T20:56:00.001-07:002015-07-21T20:56:21.139-07:00DispairLoss of a loved one.<br />The dark void left seems endless.<br />Fades, but never leaves.<br /><br />Pain has its harsh way.<br />We often feel loss deeply.<br />But we will endure.<br /><br />Through the pain and strife,<br />We shall rise victorious.<br />Light at tunnel's end.<br />
<br />
- P.W.H<br />
Skald of ShadowShadow Skaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01159269242580675769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519486857757575290.post-49787736601018415612015-07-21T20:54:00.001-07:002015-07-21T21:36:19.599-07:00Parent's WordsChildren need our love,<br />
Yet judgment flows from our lips.<br />
Think before you speak.<br />
<br />
- P.W.H.<br />
Skald of ShadowsShadow Skaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01159269242580675769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519486857757575290.post-41736850625434733842015-07-20T15:24:00.000-07:002015-07-21T20:54:56.223-07:00Lost<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK2"></a>Lost</span></u></b><br />
<br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK2"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK1">See past the darkness.<o:p></o:p></a></div>
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Your kin are more than your blood.<o:p></o:p></div>
<br />
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Know that you are loved.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
- P.W.H.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Skald of Shadows</div>
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