 | George William Cox - Aryans - 1870 - 488 pages
...know that I hung On a wind-pocked trod Nine whole nights, With a spear wounded, And to Odin offered, Myself to myself, On that tree, Of which no one knows From what root it springs;1 This mighty tree, which in Odin's Rnne Song becomes a veritable tree of knowledge, and whose... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1872 - 492 pages
...know that I hung On a wind-beaten tree, Nine whole nights, With a spear pierced, And to Odin offered Myself to myself On that tree Of which no one knows From what root it springs. 310 The Germanic World of Gods. [Oct. " Bread no one gave me, Nor a horn of drink ; Downward I peered,... | |
 | New Zealand Institute - Science - 1888 - 580 pages
...know that I hung, on a wind-swept tree Nine whole nights, with a spear wounded, And to Odin offered myself to myself, On that tree of which no one knows From what root it springs."* It may be urged that I have before stated my conviction that kau and taura were both cattle-words.... | |
 | Charles De Berard Mills - Folklore - 1888 - 302 pages
...know that I hung on a wind-rocked tree, Nine whole nights. With a spear wounded, And to Odin offered, Myself to myself, On that tree, Of which no one knows From what root It springs." Even life itself must die, a sacrifice to life. There is no force or power we know that does not yield,... | |
 | Charles De Berard Mills - Folklore - 1889 - 296 pages
...know that I hung On a wind-rocked tree, Mine whole nights. With a spear wounded. And to Odin offered. Myself to myself, On that tree. Of which no one knows From v. in' root It springs." Even life itself must die, a sacrifice to life. There is no force or power... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Litchfield - Mythology, Norse - 1890 - 278 pages
...know that I hung on a wind-rocked tree, nine whole nights, with a spear wounded and to Odin offered, myself to myself; on that tree, of which no one knows from what root it springs. Bread no one gave me, nor a horn of drink ; downward I peered, to runes applied myself, wailing learnt... | |
 | Jason Nelson Fradenburgh - Europe - 1891 - 478 pages
...kuow that I hung On a wind-rocked tree Nine whole nights, With a spear wounded And to Odin offered, Myself to myself. On that tree Of which no one knows From what root it springs. Bread no one gave me Nor a horn of drink, Downward I peered, To runes applied myself, Wailing learnt... | |
 | Alexander Crawford Lindsay Earl of Crawford - Indo-Europeans - 1891 - 922 pages
...know that I hnng On a wind-rocked tree Nine whole nights, With a spear wounded, And to Odin offered, Myself to myself; On that tree, Of which no one knows From what root it springs. Bread no one gave me, Nor a horn of drink. Downward I peered, To runes applied myself, Wailing learot... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - History - 1892 - 316 pages
...knew that I hung In the wind-rocked tree Nine whole nights, Wounded with a spear; And to Odin offered Myself to myself, On that tree, Of which no one knows From what root it springs." As he thus hangs, himself the sacrifice offered to himself as god, he composes a song of twice nine... | |
 | Hélène Adeline Guerber - Germanic peoples - 1895 - 380 pages
...know that I hung On a wind-rocked tree Nine whole nights, With a spear wounded, And to Odin offered Myself to myself; On that tree Of which no one knows From what root it springs." ODIN'S RUNE-SONG (Thorpe's tr.). When he had fully mastered this knowledge, Odin cut magic runes upon... | |
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I know that I hung on a wind-rocked tree, nine whole nights, with a spear wounded and to Odin offered, myself to myself; on that tree, of which no one knows from what root it springs. 
