63 Norse Proverbs
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A bird of Unmindfulness flutters o'er ale feasts.2.
A boy's will is the will of the wind.3.
A cleaved head no longer plots.4.
A club drenched in blood easily finds its mark.5.
A head stuck on a pike no longer conspires.6.
A lying tongue had bereft him of life, and all without reason of right.7.
A man who has his feet hacked off cannot scurry far.8.
A righteous man by praise will render thee firm in favor and love.9.
At every door-way, ere one enters, one should spy round.10.
Be never the first with friend of thine to break the bond of fellowship.11.
Be not a shoemaker nor yet a shaft maker save for thyself alone: let the shoe be misshapen, or crooked the shaft, and a curse on thy head will be called.12.
Brawl with a pig and you go away with his stink.13.
Care shall gnaw thy heart if thou canst not tell all thy mind to another.14.
Cattle die and kinsmen die, thyself too soon must die, but one thing never, I ween, will die, The doom on each one dead.15.
Deceit sleeps with greed.16.
Fear the reckoning of those you have wronged.17.
Happy is he who hath in himself praise and wisdom in life.18.
He hath need of his wits who wanders wide.19.
He that learns naught will never know how one is the fool of another, for if one be rich another is poor and for that should bear no blame.20.
I saw and was silent, I saw and pondered, I listened to the speech of men.