The Hávamál Norse Mythology Book – Verse 27

 

A witless man, | when he meets with men,

Had best in silence abide;

For no one shall find | that nothing he knows,

If his mouth is not open too much.

(But a man knows not, | if nothing he knows,

When his mouth has been open too much.)

-Hávamál v27, Bellows translation

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