I’ve been following Jackson Crawford on YouTube for years, and I’m very impressed with his expertise in Norse language and myth. This book is a translation of Håvamål, a collection of Old Norse poems from the Viking age. The poems are presenting advice for living, proper conduct and wisdom. The verses are attributed to Odin, the King of Gods.
“Hávamál, ‘Words of the High One’—purportedly delivering the wisdom of Odin in his own voice—is one of the most important mythological poems of the Poetic Edda and simply the most important witness to early Norse cultural ethics. Jackson Crawford has now given us a clean text and a new facing-page translation in contemporary idiom.”
Cattle die,
friends die,
and the same with you;
but I know of something that never dies
and that’s a dead person’s deedsHávamál
