Friday, July 10, 2020
Norse Proverbs (61 Proverbs)
- In thy home be joyous and generous to guests discreet shalt thou be in thy bearing.
(Norse Proverb)
- Thou shalt never sleep in the arms of a sorceress, lest she should lock thy limbs.
(Norse Proverb)
- A bird of Unmindfulness flutters o'er ale feasts.
(Norse Proverb)
- No friend is he who but flatters.
(Norse Proverb)
- Care shall gnaw thy heart if thou canst not tell all thy mind to another.
(Norse Proverb)
- The head only knows what lies nearest the heart.
(Norse Proverb)
- It is the still and silent sea that drowns a man.
(Norse Proverb)
- To be without silver is better than to be without honor.
(Norse Proverb)
- A cleaved head no longer plots.
(Norse Proverb)
- Of runes they spoke, and the reading of runes was little withheld from their lips.
(Norse Proverb)
- Cattle die and kinsmen die, thyself too soon must die, but one thing never, I ween, will die, The doom on each one dead.
(Norse Proverb)
- The lame runs if he has to.
(Norse Proverb)
- It's best to search while the trail is new.
(Norse Proverb)
- Two heads cut off and thrown high into the tree have only the winds with which to scheme..
(Norse Proverb)
- A club drenched in blood easily finds its mark.
(Norse Proverb)
- One who sees his friends roasted on a spit tells all he knows.
(Norse Proverb)
- Deceit sleeps with greed.
(Norse Proverb)
- The madman often tells the truth.
(Norse Proverb)
- Less good than they say for the sons of men is the drinking oft of ale: for the more they drink, the less can they think and keep a watch o'er their wits.
(Norse Proverb)
- We speak them fairest when thoughts are falsest and wile the wisest of hearts.
(Norse Proverb)
- A head stuck on a pike no longer conspires.
(Norse Proverb)
- Praise day at even, a wife when dead, a weapon when tried, a maid when married, ice when 'tis crossed, and ale when 'tis drunk.
(Norse Proverb)
- Fear the reckoning of those you have wronged.
(Norse Proverb)
- The man that walks his own rode, walks alone.
(Norse Proverb)
- Let him speak soft words and offer wealth who longs for a woman's love.
(Norse Proverb)
- Whim rules the child, and weather the field, each is open to chance.
(Norse Proverb)
- A lying tongue had bereft him of life, and all without reason of right.
(Norse Proverb)
- Put to the sword those that disagree.
(Norse Proverb)
- Happy is he who hath in himself praise and wisdom in life.
(Norse Proverb)
- The shame you cannot lift away, you had better let lie.
(Norse Proverb)
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