Havamal sayings

Here are a few sayings from the Havamal, a collection of Old Norse poems attributed to the god Odin:

1. "Cattle die, kinsmen die, we ourselves also die; but the fair fame never dies of him who has earned it."

2. "Better a humble servant alive than a proud one dead."

3. "The unwise man is awake all night, and ponders everything over; when morning comes he is weary in mind, and all is a burden as ever."

4. "He welcomes the night who has enough provisions, short are the sails of a ship, dangerous the dark in autumn, the wind may veer within five days, and many times in a month."

5. "A man should be loyal through life to friends, and return gift for gift, laugh when they laugh, but with lies repay a lie."

6. "A man should be loyal through life to friends, and return gift for gift, laugh when they laugh, but with lies repay a lie."

7. "A coward believes he will ever live if he keeps away from fighting; but old age will give him no peace, though spears may spare him."

8. "A man knows not, if nothing he knows, that gold oft apes begets."

9. "A man should be loyal through life to friends, and return gift for gift, laugh when they laugh, but with lies repay a lie."

10. "The halt can manage a horse, the handless a flock, the deaf be a doughty fighter, to be blind is better than to burn on a pyre; there is nothing the dead can do."

These sayings reflect the wisdom, values, and beliefs of the Norse people during the Viking Age.

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