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Poetic Edda

 Seldom safe is fame,
 Unless wide renown be won;
On the day thereafter  send him to death,
 Let him pay the price of his lies.

26. Then fourth I rede thee,  if thou shalt find
 A wily witch on thy road,
It is better to go  than her guest to be,
 Though night enfold thee fast.

27.[1] Eyes that see  need the sons of men
 Who fight in battle fierce;
Oft witches evil  sit by the way,
 Who blade and courage blunt.

28.[2] Then fifth I rede thee,  though maidens fair
 Thou seest on benches sitting,
Let the silver of kinship  not rob thee of sleep,
 And the kissing of women beware.

29.[3] Then sixth I rede thee,  if men shall wrangle,
 And ale-talk rise to wrath,
No words with a drunken  warrior have,
 For wine steals many men's wits.

    you falsely because of your silence, do not argue with him, but the next morning kill him as proof that he is a liar."

  1. ↑ Probably another interpolation.
  2. ↑ Silver of kinship: the passage is doubtful, but apparently it means the "marriage-price" for which a bride was "bought."
  3. ↑ Line 1 comes at the end of the thirty-second leaf of Regius, and whatever further was contained in that manuscript has van-

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