The Poetic Edda: The Heroic Poems (Dover Value Editions) by Bellows Henry Adams

Author:Bellows, Henry Adams [Bellows, Henry Adams]
Language: eng
Format: azw
ISBN: 9780486140605
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2012-03-13T16:00:00+00:00

10. Branch-runes learn, if a healer wouldst be,

And cure for wounds wouldst work;

On the bark shalt thou write, and on trees that be

With boughs to the eastward bent.

9. Sail-steeds: ships.

10. Branch-runes: runes cut in the bark of trees. Such runes were believed to transfer sickness from the invalid to the tree. Some editors, however, have changed “limrunar” (“branch- runes”) to “lifrunar” (“life-runes”).

11. Speech-runes learn, that none may seek

To answer harm with hate;

Well he winds and weaves them all,

And sets them side by side,

At the judgment-place, when justice there

The folk shall fairly win.

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