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Quotation from The Poetic Edda by Anonymous (Old Norse)
“I ween that I hung | on the windy tree, Hung there for nights full nine; With the spear I was wounded, | and offered I was To Othin, myself to myself,”
The Poetic Edda, Hovamol, stanza 139, trans. Henry Adams Bellows (1923)
Othin tells how he hung on the world-tree, wounded and offered to himself, before he took up the runes.
Citation: "I ween that I hung | on the windy tree, Hung there for nights full nine; With the spear I was wounded, | and offered I was To Othin, myself to myself," — Anonymous (Old Norse), The Poetic Edda, Hovamol, stanza 139, trans. Henry Adams Bellows (1923). (id poetic-edda-q8)
Portrait: Codex Regius of Eddaic Poems, Unknown author, Public domain.
