Hecate's Delights

Eros and Psyche

I trow I hung on that windy Tree

nine whole days and nights,

stabbed with a spear, offered to Odin,

myself to mine own self given,

high on that Tree of which none hath heard

from what roots it rises to heaven.

- Hávamál

143. Dost know how to write, dost know how to read,

dost know how to paint, dost know how to prove,

dost know how to ask, dost know how to offer,

dost know how to send, dost know how to spend?

144. Better ask for too little than offer too much,

like the gift should be the boon;

better not to send than to overspend.

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Thus Odin graved ere the world began;

Then he rose from the deep, and came again.

-Hávamál, The Words of Odin the High One

from the Elder or Poetic Edda

Thus spoke Odin, before the world began:

A coward believes he will ever live

if he keep him safe from strife:

but old age leaves him not long in peace

though spears may spare his life.

- Hávamál

The Words of Odin the High One

from the Elder or Poetic Edda