The Hávamál Norse Mythology Book – Verse 1

Within the gates | ere a man shall go,

(Full warily let him watch,)

Full long let him look about him;

For little he knows | where a foe may lurk,

And sit in the seats within.

-Hávamál v1, Bellows translation

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