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Hovamol

98. "Othin, again  at evening come,
 If a woman thou wouldst win;
Evil it were  if others than we
 Should know of such a sin."

99. Away I hastened,  hoping for joy,
 And careless of counsel wise;
Well I believed  that soon I should win
 Measureless joy with the maid.

100. So came I next  when night it was,
 The warriors all were awake;
With burning lights  and waving brands
 I learned my luckless way.

101. At morning then,  when once more I came,
 And all were sleeping still,
A dog I found  in the fair one's place,
 Bound there upon her bed.

102.[1] Many fair maids,  if a man but tries them,
 False to a lover are found;
That did I learn  when I longed to gain
 With wiles the maiden wise;

  1. ↑ Rask adds at the beginning of this stanza two lines from a late paper manuscript, running:
    "Few are so good  that false they are never
    To cheat the mind of a man."
    He makes these two lines plus lines 1 and 2 a full stanza, and lines 3, 4, 5, and 6 a second stanza.

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