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"The Stranger at the Door" (1908) by W. G. Collingwood. Hávamál (English: / ˈ h ɔː v ə ˌ m ɔː l / HAW-və-mawl; Old Norse: Hávamál, [note 1] classical pron. [ˈhɒːwaˌmɒːl], Modern Icelandic pron. [ˈhauːvaˌmauːl̥], ‘Words of Hávi [the High One]’) is presented as a single poem in the Codex Regius, a collection of Old Norse poems from the Viking age.
Bölþorn is used in Gylfaginning (The Beguiling of Gylfi), whereas Bölþor occurs in Hávamál (Sayings of the High One). [1] The Old Norse name Bölþorn has been translated 'Evil-thorn'. [2] [1] The variant form Bölþor would have had no clear meaning to medieval Scandinavians. [1]
One half of the world does not know how the other half lives; One hand washes the other; One kind word can warm three winter months; One man's meat is another man's poison; One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter; One man's trash is another man's treasure; One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb
Hávamál (The Ballad of the High One, The Sayings of Hár, Sayings of the High One) Vafþrúðnismál (The Ballad of Vafthrúdnir, The Lay of Vafthrúdnir, Vafthrúdnir's Sayings) Grímnismál (The Ballad of Grímnir, The Lay of Grímnir, Grímnir's Sayings) Skírnismál (The Ballad of Skírnir, The Lay of Skírnir, Skírnir's Journey)
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It is an alias of Suttungr in the Hávamál ('Sayings of the High One') version of Odin's theft of the mead of poetry. Fjalar is also the name of one of the dwarfs who made the mead of poetry from the blood of Kvasir in Skáldskaparmál ('The Language of Poetry').
Old Norse philosophy was the philosophy of the early Scandinavians. [a] [b] [c]Similar to the patterns of thought of other early Germanic peoples, Old Norse philosophy is best attested in the Poetic Edda, particularly Hávamál, which is a poem attributed to Odin, the leading deity in Norse mythology.