I am on a quest to find my religious identidy, I need some Asatruers to tell me more about their religion?

Question

Tell me the best websites and books to read and stuff like that, I'm trying out 40 religions to see which one I feel most at home in. I am also doing it to have more religious tolerence and learn more about religions.
So please give me stuff I should know and things I should try out to better understand asatru.

Ummm I asked about asatru. And satan person, I don't believe in satan

Answer 1

http://www.irminsul.org/aw/aw.html is the best page I know of, and it's actually about Asatru, not Christianity.

Answer 2

I have lots of good links to many good Asatru sites on my page, except for the Northvegr site with Heathen's pointed out which is a great resource (must remember to put that on my page):

http://www.geocities.com/lilith_ravenmoon/Heathen.html

I also have some books there listed that are worth checking out. But even if you read all of them it can be years before you understand everything completely about the Norse and Asatru/Heathenry. We often joke that it's the "religion with homework" and it definitely is. A good understanding of at least the Poetic and Prose Eddas and some of the Sagas is the most base prerequisite to understanding the nature of our Gods and the spirits we work with and honor.

Answer 3

Try the website of the Asatru Folk Assembly.

http://www.runestone.org

They have a good online basic introduction primer on Asatru for beginners:

http://www.runestone.org/introduction/primer.html

Answer 4

We should all care about the Earth, religious or not, especially since it's the only one we've got! God gave us this magnificent planet that is perfectly self sustaining and self renewing, yet mankind has managed to screw it up with greed, pollution and apathy. Mankind has done the same thing with our food and fresh water supplies, but that's another diatribe :0) I'm not even going to touch the rest of your rant, especially since it's practically incomprehensible. But yes, my religion makes a real effort to conserve paper products, recycle and try to prevent as much pollution as possible. We do this because we love the gift we have been given in the Earth, and want to keep it as nice as possible. If the degeneration and ruination of the Earth ail you, keep in mind the scripture that "God will bring to ruin those ruining the Earth."

Answer 5

Everyone has given great advice, but ask yourself one thing......why do I need 40 beliefs. Close your mind and listen to your heart. When I found I was odinist I thought I was really a christian. Denied what I felt for months. Be careful in what you seek also. Do not try to fix within that cannot be fixed without.

Answer 6

http://www.northvegr.org/northern/book/praiseworthy.php
My good friend swears by this site and I have to admit it's pretty awesome
http://www.asatru-u.org/beginner/asau-beginner-outline.htm
Decent info and a really great starting place
http://www.wyrdwords.vispa.com/heathenry/index.html
Several good essays
http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/
Neat stuff on this site. It's not one of my main ones by far, but still interesting
http://sacred-texts.com/neu/ice/index.htm
If you don't want to invest in books yet. Bellows is a hard translation but a very good one.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/poe/poe38.htm
Makes life easier

Books:
Prose Edda
Poetic Edda
Beowulf
Icelandic Sagas (be warned, its a three inch thick book)
Germania by Tacitus
Feel free to message me. If I don't know, I'll happy to find out for you.

Answer 7

I'd start by reading the "Eddas" by Snori Snurlson. Find a good translation, and read away.

Answer 8

Satan makes man walk in complete circles.
Forward or backwards you're going no where.

But don't worry he's just a puppet.

Answer 9

Here are some basic moral, ethical and philosphical ideas from the religion...
NINE NOBLE VIRTUES:


COURAGE is the bravery to do what is right at all times with no regard to possible consequences or repercussions.

TRUTH it the willingness to say what is honest and right at all times.

HONOR is the feeling of inner value and worth from which one knows that one is noble of being.

FIDELITY is the will to be loyal to one's gods and goddesses, to one's folk and to one's self.

DISCIPLINE is the willingness to be hard with one's self first, and then if need be with others, in order that greater purposes can be achieved.

HOSPITALITY is the willingness to share what one has with one's fellows, especially when they are far from home.

INDUSTRIOUSNESS is the willingness to work hard--always striving for efficiency--as a joyous activity in and of itself.

SELF-RELIANCE is the spirit of independence which is achieved not only for the individual, but also for the family, clan, tribe and nation.

PERSEVERANCE is the spirit of stick-to-it-iveness that can always bring one back from defeat or failure--each time we fail, we recognize failure for what it is and, if the purpose is true and good, we persevere until success is won.



SIX-FOLD GOAL:

RIGHT is ruled over by Tyr. It is the justice of law shaped by the lore of our folk and meted out with good judgment and true by those who can see the truth. This is a goal rationally sought and rationally administered--the rule of rationality and enlightenment in the world. From this our desire to see a world ruled rationally is derived.

WISDOM is watched over by Odin. This is the hidden lore and powers welling up from the darkest depths of our souls and hovering high over our heads, shining beyond the clouds, and leading us into the unknown. This is the mysterious force that has the ability to hold all things together, ruled by those who can see and understand the whole. Above all, wisdom must be preserved, for in it are the wells of all memory; if it and only it survives, all other parts of the whole may be regenerated. From this is derived our sense of adventure, our curiosity about the unknown, our seeking and questioning character.

MIGHT is wielded by Thor. In might is embodied the two-fold goal of victory and defense, which both depend on pure power or might for their ultimate right. Without this pivotal goal, all others will fall into decay and be overcome by things outside the truth--as indeed they have been. But might must be ruled over by right and wisdom, and must serve the purposes of harvest and frith. There is worth of might in and of itself, however, in the bodily expressions of power is found the joy of victory which can act as a balm on the soul of the warrior. The goal of conquest and exercise of might can be turned without or within the true man or woman--but it must find expression. From this is derived our hunger for conquests, big and small, and our great will to power.

HARVEST is holy to the Vanir. This is the reaping of the things of the good cycles of nature, which ensures that the folk continues to flourish in the world, that the livestock abound in good health, and that the seed is rightly planted, cut and threshed. Harvest is the overriding need for organic continuance--for the continuance of organic life. Harvest here includes all of the fruits of economic cycles. It is the goodness of plenty, o wealth, and physical well-being. Today our society and our desire for abundance and wealth is dominated by this value system.

FRITH is ruled by Frey and Freyja. Frith is our own word for "peace." Frith is the true state of "peace" wherein all parts of the Six-Fold Goal are successfully pursued and attained by a society. In frith is true freedom, for frith is the essence of freedom, the state in which self-directed, self-willed growth and development can take place. Frith usually implies an absence of war but not of struggle or conflict, which must always be present on some level when true growth is taking place. In frith we do not stand still; in frith we learn how to take our fights to ever higher fields. Right/Might/Frith form a powerful axis. Might provides the protection frith needs to promote freedom, but might must be ruled by right to protect frith from ungoverned might. From frith comes our almost universal desire for "peace" but if we misunderstand what this means, we can bring ourselves not "peace" but stagnation and death.

LOVE is the law of life and is embodied in Frey and Freya, the "Lord and Lady". This is the pure powerful love, or the "lust" of eroticism. In it is our sense of play and pure pleasure. The stem word from which "love" is derived really has to do with the enjoyment of (physical) pleasure. That we all seek this as a goal is natural and good, but it is not without its non-natural or "spiritual" sides, to be sure. In seeking pleasure, we show and more importantly experience an unbridled lust for life itself. This deep well of desire acts from below much the way wisdom does from above; in fact, there is a secret bond between them. Wisdom and love hold the six goals together.

The Code of Nine
1. The Code is to HONOUR--
Honour yourself with truth and fairness. Your word is your bond; give your word power by adhering to it. Honour your family and friends with reverence and respect. Honour your love and the way, above all else. Honour is the mark of strength and nobility.

2. The Code is to PROTECT --
Protect with savagery your blood and kin. Let no one and nothing violate your love or the way. Let there always be inequity in defense. Always protect thrice as fiercely as one is attacked. Protection is the mark of the warrior spirit.

3. The Code is to FLOURISH --
Prosperity and growth are key to the survival of the way. Such is the mark of intelligence.

4. The Code is KNOWLEDGE --
Knowledge is power. Seek ever to expand the mind. Never stagnate, for knowledge is a gift from the Gods.

5. The Code is to CHANGE --
Adapting and changing are important for growth and survival. That which cannot adapt or change is doomed to perish. Change is the mark of insight.

6. The Code is FAIRNESS --
Pay all debts, pull your own weight, always hear and consider all sides. Treat others with equity and fairness. Expect the same.

7. The Code is BALANCE --
Remember the law of balance; all that which you do or wish, for good or ill, shall return to you one day. Strive for the good.

8. The Code is CONTROL --
Never lose control to anger or be baited by hostility. Never strike a woman unless your very life hangs in the balance. Never violate the weak or innocent. Never tolerate those who do. Control is the mark of a disciplined mind, a sign of the greatest warriors.

9. The Code is CONFLICT --
Those who follow the way must know the art of combat, weapons, and vengeance. War is part of The path. Always be prepared for hostility. It is a destiny woven into the fibres of our people. Keep body, mind, and training up at all times. Have no remorse in the savagery or conflict. Win, prevail, and survive.

Give your word sparingly, adhere to it like iron.

In the world, your first responsibility is to your own people. Be proper to others only when necessary.

What you have, hold.

Be honest with others and let them know that you expect honesty in return.

Pledge friendship and your services to those who are worthy; strengthen others of your people and they will strengthen you.

Those of our people should always endeavor to settle any differences among themselves without outside interference.

The seeking of wisdom is a high virtue.

Love of truth, honor, courage, and loyalty are the hallmarks of the noble soul.

Be prepared for what the future brings.

Life with all its joys, struggles and ambiguities is to be embraced and lived to the fullest.

Asatruar are people without masters, our Gods tell us to stand tall and proud before them, do not be a coward, and bend our knee for NONE, neither Gods nor men.

We are a free people, we live free and we will die free, "Far better it is to die on your feet, than to live on your knees." This is our way of living: FREE!

HÁVAMÁL


1. Have thy eyes about thee when thou enterest
be wary alway
be watchful alway;
for one never knoweth when need will be
to meet hidden foe in the hall.

2. All hail to the givers! A guest hath come
say where shall he sit?
In haste is he to the hall who cometh,
to find a place by the fire.

3. The warmth needeth who hath wandered long
and is numb about the knees;
meat and dry clothes the man needeth
over the fields who hath fared.

4. A drink needeth to full dishes who cometh,
a towel, and the prayer to partake;
good bearing eke, to be well liked
and be bidden to banquet again.

5. Of his wit hath need who widely fareth--
a dull wit will do at home;
a laughingstock he who lacketh words
among smart wits when he sits.

6. To be bright of brain let no man boast
but take good heed of his tongue:
the sage and silent come seldom to grief
as they fare among folk in the hall
[More faithful friend findest thou never
than shrewd head on thy shoulders.]

7. The wary guest to wassail who comes
listens that he may learn,
opens his ears, casts his eyes about:
thus wards him the wise man ‘gainst harm.

8. Happy is he who hath won him
the love and liking of all;
for hard it is one's help to seek
from the mind of another man.

9. Happy is he who hath won him
both winning ways and wisdom;
for ill led is oft who seeketh help
from the wit and words of another.

10. Better burden bearest thou nowise
than shrewd head on thy shoulders;
in good stead will it stand among stranger folk,
and shield when unsheltered thou art.

11. Better burden bearest thou nowise
than shrewd head on thy shoulders;
but with worser food farest thou never
than an overmuch of mead.

12. For good is not, thou good is it thought,
mead for the sons of men;
the deeper he drinks the dimmer grows
the mind of many a man.

13. The heron of heedlessness hovers o'er the feast
and stealeth the minds of men.
With that fowl's feathers fettered I was
when I was Gunnloth's guest.

14. Drunk I became, dead drunk, forsooth,
when I was with wise Fjalar;
that bout is best from which back fetches
each man his mind full clear.

15. Let a king's offspring be sparing in words
and bold in battle;
glad and wholesome the hero be
till comes his dying day.

16. The unwise man thinks that he ay will live,
if from fighting he flees;
but the ails and aches of old aches dog him
though spears have spared him.

17. The fool but gapes when to folks he comes,
he mumbles and he mopes;
soon is seen, when his swill he had,
what the mind of the man i like.

18. Only he is aware who hath wandered much,
and far hath been afield,
what manner of man be he whom he meets,
if himself be not wanting in wit.

19. The cup spurn not, yet be sparing withal:
say what is needful, or naught;
for ill breeding upbraids thee no man
if soon thou goest to sleep.

20. The greedy guest gainsays his head
and eats until he is ill;
his belly oft maketh a butt of a man,
on bench 'midst the sage when he sits.

21. The herd do know when home they shall,
and gang from the grass to their stalls;
but the unwise man will not ever learn
how much his maw will hold.

22. The ill-minded man who meanly thinks,
fleers at both foul and fair;
he does no know, as know he ought,
that he is not free from flaws.

23. The unwise man waketh all night,
thinking of this and that---
tosses, sleepless, and is tired at morn:
nor lighter for that his load.

24. The unwise man weens that all
who laugh with him, like him too;
nor sees their scorn, thought they sneer at him,
on bench midst the sage when he sits.

25. The unwise man weens that all
that laugh with him like him, too;
but then he finds, when to the Thing he comes
few spokesmen to speed his cause.

26. The unwise man weens he knows all,
if from harm he is far at home;
but knows not ever what answer to make
when others ask him aught.

27. The unwise man among others who comes
let him be sparing of speech;
for no one knows that naught is in him,
but he open his mouth too much.

28. Clever is he who is keen to ask,
and also to answer, all men;
'tis hard to hide from the hearing of men
what is on everyone's lips.

29. Much at random oft rambles he
whose tongue does ever tattle;
a talker's tongue unless tamed it be,
will often work him woe.

30. No mock make thou of any man,
though thou comest among kinsmen;
he knowing weens him whom no one has asked,
and dry-shod hies him home.

31. A wise man he who hies him betimes
from the man who likes to mock;
for at table who teases can never tell
what foe he might have to fight.

32. Many a man means no ill
yet teases the other at table;
strife will ever start among men
when guest clashes with guest.

33. An early meal ay a man should get him,
lest famished he comes to the feast:
he sits and stuffs as though starved he were,
and naught he says to his neighbors.

34. To a false friend ay a far way 'tis,
though his roof be reared by the road;
to staunch friend ay a straight way leads,
though far he have fared from thee.

35. Get thee gone betimes; a guest should not
stay too long in one stead;
lief grows loath if too long one sits
on bench, though in he was bidden.

36. One's home is best though a hut it be:
there a man is master and lord;
though but two goats thine and a thatchèd roof,
'tis far better than beg.

37. One's home is best though a hut it be:
there a man is master and lord;
his heart doth bleed who has to beg
the meat for his every meal.

38. From his weapons away no one should ever
stir one step in the field;
for no one knows when need might have
on a sudden a man of his sword.

39. So freehanded never found I a man
but would gladly take what is given;
nor of his goods so ungrudging ever,
to forego what is given him.

40. Of his worldly goods which he gotten hath
let a man not sting overmuch;
oft is lavished on foe what for friend was saved,
for matters go often amiss.

41. With weapons and weeds should friends be won,
as one can see in themselves;
those who give to each other will ay be friends,
once they meet half way.

42. With his friends a man should be friends ever,
and pay back gift for gift;
laughter for laughter he learn to give
and eke lesing for lies.

43. With his friend a man should be friends ever,
with him and the friend of his friend;
but forman's friend befriend thou never,
(and keep thee aloof from his kin).

44. If friend thou hast whom faithful thou deemest,
and wishest to win him for thee:
ope they heart to him nor withhold thy gifts,
and fare to find him often.

45. If another there by whom ill thou trusteth,
yet would'st get from him gain:
speak fari to him though false thou meanest,
and pay hiim lesing for lies.

46. And eke tis heed: if ill thou trust one,
and hollow-hearted his speech:
thou shalt laugh with him and lure him on,
and let him have tit for tat.

47. Young was I once and went alone,
and wandering lost my way;
when a friend I found I felt me rich:
man is cheered by man.

48. He giveth gladly a goodly life leadeth,
and sledom hath he sorrow;
but the churlish wight is chary of all,
and grudgingly parts with his gifts.

49. In the fields as I fared, (for fun) I hung
my weeds on two wooden men;
they were reckoned folks when the rags they wore:
naked, a man is naught.

50. The fir tree dies in the field that stands;
shields it nor bark nor bast;
thus eke the man who by all is shunned:
why should he linger in life?

51. Than fire hotter for five days burneth
love between friends that are false;
it dieth down when dawneth the sixth,
then all the sweetness turns sour.

52. Not great things needs give to a man:
bringeth thanks oft a little thing;
wth half a loaf and a half-drained cup
I won me oft worthy friend.

53. A little lake hath but little sand:
but small the mind of man;
not all men are equally wise,
each wight wanteth somewhat.

54. Middling wise every man should be:
beware of being too wise;
happiest in life most likely he
who knows not more than is needful.

55. Middling wise every man should be:
beware of being too wise;
for wise man's heart is happy seldom,
if too great the wisdom he won.

56. Middling wise every man should be:
beware of being too wise;
his fate let no one beforehand know
who would keep his heart from care.

57. Kindles brand from brand, and burns till all burnt is:
thus fire is kindled from fire;
by the words of his mouth a man is known,
but from his dumbness a dullard.

58. Betimes must rise who would take another's
life and win his wealth;
lying down wolf never got the lamb,
nor sleeping wight slew his foe.

59. Betimes must rise who few reapers has,
and see to the work himself;
much will miss in the morn who sleeps:
for the brisk the race is half run.

60. What lathes and logs will last him out,
a man may reckon aright,
and of wood to warm him how much he may want
for many a winter month.

61. Well-groomed and washed wend to the Thing,
though thy clothes be not the best;
of thy shoes and breeks be not ashamed,
and still less of thy steed.

62. With lowered head sweeps, to the sea when he comes,
the eagle o'er the billowing brine;
thus eke the man among a throng
who finds but few to befriend him.

63. Both ask and answer let everyone
who wishes to be deemed wise;
let one know it, nor none other:
if three know, thousands will.

64. A wise man will not overweening be,
and stake too much on his strength;
when the mighty are met to match their strength,
;twill be found that first is no one.

65. (Watchful and wary everyone should be,
nor put too much trust in a friend,)
the words by one unwarly spoken,
have undone oft a daughty man.

66. Too late by far to some feasts I came;
to others, all too soon;
the beer was drunk, or yet unbrewed:
never hits it the hapless one right.

67. Here or there would they have me in,
if no meat at the meal I craved,
or hung two hams in my good friends home,
after eating one of his own.

68. A bonny fire is a blessing to man,
and eke the sght of the sun,
his hearty health if he holds it well,
and to live one's life without shame.

69. All undone is no one though at death's door he lie:
some with good sons are blessed,
and some with kinsmen, or with coffers full,
ans some with deeds well-done.

70. Better alive (than lifeless be):
to the quick fall ay the cattle;
the hearth fire burned for the happy heir--
outdoors a dead man lay.

71. May the halt ride a horse and the handless be herdsmen,
the deaf man may daughtily fight,
a blind man is better than a burned one, ay:
of what gain is a good man dead?

72. To have a son is good, late got though he be,
and born when buried his father;
stones see'st thou seldom set by the roadside
but by kith raised over kinsmen.

73. [Two will down one, of tongue is heads band;
a fist I fear 'neath every furry coat.

74. Of the night is fain whose knapsack is full;
close are ship's quarters.
Fickle are the night in fall;
there's both fair and foul in five days time--
still more within a month.]

75. He wo noweth nothing knoweth not either,
how wealth may warp a man's wit;
one hath wealth when wanteth another,
though he bear no blame himself.

76. Cattle die and kinsmen die,
thyself eke soon wilt die;
but fair fame will fade never,
I ween, for him whowins it.

77. Cattle die, and kinsman die,
thyself eke soon wilt die;
one thing, I wot, will wither never:
the doom over each one dead.

78. A full-stocked farm had some farmer's sons.
Now they stoop at the begger's staff;
in a twinkling fleeth trothless wealth,
it is the ficklist of friends.

79. The unwise man, once he calls his own
wealth or the love of a woman--
his overweening waxes but his wit never--
he haughtily hardens his heart.

80. 'Tis readily found when the runes thou ask,
made by mighty gods,
known to holy hosts,
and dyed deeo red by Óthin:
that 'tis wise to waste no words.

81. At eve praise the day, when burned down, a torch,
a wife when wedded, a weapon when tried,
ice when over it, ale when 'tis drunk.

82. fell wood in the wind, in fair weather row out to sea,
dally with girls in the dark-- the days eyes are many--
choose a shield for shelter, a ship for speed,
a sword for keenness, a girl for kissing.

83. By the fire drink ale, skate on the ice,
buy a bony steed, a rusty blade,
feed your horse at hime, and your hound in his hutch.

84. A wench's words let no wise man trust,
nor trust the troth of a woman;
for on whirling wheel their hearts are shaped,
and fickle and fitful their minds.

85. A brittle bow, a burning fire,
a gaping wolf, a grunting sow,
a croaking crow, a kettle boiling,
a rising sea, a rootless tree,

86. A flying dart, a foaming billow,
ice one night old, a coiled-up adder,
a woman's bed talk a broken blade,
the play of cubs, a king's scion,

87. A sickly calf, a self-willed thrall,
the smooth words of a witch, warriors fresh slain,

88. Thy brother's banesman, though it be on the road,
a half-burned house, a speedy horse--
worthless the steed if one foot he breaks--
so trusting be no one to trust in these!

89. Early-sown acres let none ever trust,
nor trust his on too soon:
undoes weather the one, unwisdom the other:
risk not hty riches on these.

90. The false love of a woman, 'tis like to one
riding on ice with horse unroughshod--
a brisk two-year-old, unbroken withal--
or in raging wind drifting rudderless,
like the lame outrunning the reindeer on bare rock.

91. Heed my words now, for I know them both:
mainsworn are men to women;
we speak most fair when most foul our thoughts,
for that wiles the warest wits.

92. Fiarly shall speak, nor spare his gifts,
who will win a womans love,
shall praise the looks of the lovely maid:
he who flatters will win the fair.

93. At the loves of a man to laugh at is no meet
for anyone ever;
the wise oft fall, when fools yield not,
to the lure of a lovely maid.

94. 'Tis not meet for men to mock at what
befalls full many:
a fair face oft makes fools of the wise
by the mighty lure of love.

95. One's self only knows what is in one's heart,
each reads but himself aright;
no sickness seems to sound mind worse
than to have lost all liking for life.

111. "tis time to chant on the sages chair:
at the well of Urth
I saw but said naught I saw and thought,
(listened to Hár's loree);
Of runes I heard men speak unraveling them,
at the hall of Hár,
in the hall of Hár,
and so I heard them say:

112. hear thou, Loddfáfnir, and heed it well,
learn it, 'twill lend thee strength,
follow it, 'twill further thee:
at night rise not but to be ready for fow,
or to look for a spot to erlieve thee.

113. Hear thou, Loddfáfnir, and heed it well,
learn it, 'twill lend theee strength,
follow it, 'twill further thee:
in a witch's arms beware of sleeping,
linking thy limbs with hers.

114. She will cast her spell that thou carest not to go
to meetings where men are gathered;
unmindful of meat, and mirhtless, thou goest,
and seekest thy bed in sorrow.

115. Hear thou, Loddfáfnir, and heed it well,
learn it, 'twill lend thee strength,
follow it,' twill further thee:
beware lest the wedded wife of a man
thou lure to love with thee.

116. Hear thou, Loddfáfnir, and heed it well,
learn it, 'twill lend thee strength,
follow it, 'twill further thee:
on fell of firth if to fare thee list,
furnish thee well with food.

117. Hear thou, Loddfáfnir,, and heed it well,
learn it, 'twill lend thee strength,
follow it' twill further thee:
withhold the hardships which happen to thee
from the knowledge of knaves;
for, know thou, from knaves thou wilt never have
reward for thy good wishes.

118. A man I saw sorely bested
through a wicked woman's words;
her baleful tongue did work his bane,
though good and nguilty he was.

119. Hear thou, Loddfáfnir, and heed it well,
learn it, 'twill lend thee strength,
follow it, 'twill further thee:
if faithful friend thou hast found for thee,
then fare to find him full oft;
overgrown is soon with tall grash and bush
the trail which is trod by none.

120. Hear thou, Loddfáfnir, and heed it well,
learn it, 'twill lend thee strength,
follow it, 'twill further thee:
a good man seek thou to gain as thy friend,
and learn to maky thyself loved.

121. Hear thou, Loddfáfnir, and heed it well,
learn it, 'twill lend thee strength,
follow it, 'twill further thee:
the first be not with a friend to break
who was faithful found to thee;
for sorrow eateth the soul of him
who may not unburden his mind.

122. hear thou, Loddfáfnir, and heed it well,
learn it, 'twill lend thee strength,
follow it, 'twill further thee:
beware thou of bandying words
with an unwse oaf,

123. For from evil men not ever wilt thou
get reward for good;
a good man, though, will gain for thee
the love and liking of many.

124. Then love in mingled when a man can say
to a bosom friend what burdens him;
few things are worse than fickle mind:
no friend he who but speaks thee fair.

125. Hear thou, Loddfáfnir, and heed it well,
learn it, 'twill lend thee strength,
follow it, 'twill furhter thee:
not three sords shalt with a worse man bandy;
oft the better man forbears
when the sorse man wounds thee.

126. hear thou, Loddfáfnir, and heed it well,
learn it,' twill lend theee strength,
follow it,' twill further thee:
neither shoemaker be nor shaftmaker, either,
but it be for thyself:
let the shoe be ill shaped or the shaft not true,
and they will will thee woe.

127. hear thou, Loddfáfnir, and heed it well,
learn it, 'twill lend thee strength,
follow it, 'twill further thee:
if worng was done thee let thy wrong be known,
and fall on thy foes straight away.

128. Hear thou, Loddfáfnir, and heed it well,
learn it, 'twill lend thee strength,
follow it, 'twill further thee:
in ill deeds not ever share,
but be thou glad to do good.

129. Hear thou, Loddfáfnir, and heed it well,
learn it, 'twill lend thee strength,
follow it, 'twill further thee:
look not ever up, when fightng--
for mad with fear men then oft grow--
lest that warlocks bewitch thee.

130. Hear thou, Loddfáfnir, and heed it well,
learn it, 'twill lend thee strength,
follow it, 'twill further thee:
it thee list to gain a good woman's love
and all the bliss there be,
thy troth shalt pledge and truely keep:
no one tires of the good he gets.

131. hear thou, Loddfáfnir, and heed it well,
learn it, 'twill lend thee strength,
follow it, 'twill further thee:
be wary of thee, but not wary o'er much;
be most wary of ale and of other man's wife,
and eke, thirdly, lest thieves outwit thee.

132. Hear thou, Loddfáfnir, and heed it well,
learn it, 'twill lend thee strength,
follow it, 'twill further thee:
Never laugh at or mock, or make game of,
guest or wayfaring wight.

133. Those who sit within hall oft hardly know
of what kin be they who come;
no man so flawless but some fault he has,
nor so wicked to b of no worth.
[Both foul and fair are found among men,
belnded within their breasts.]

134. hear thou, Loddfáfnir, and heed it well,
learn it, 'twill lend thee strength
follow it, 'twill further thee:
at hoary sage sneer thou never:
there is sense oft in old men's saws;
oft wisdom cometh out of withered bag
that hangs 'mongst the hides,
and dnagles 'mongst the skins drying
under the roof with the rennet,

135. Hear thou, Loddfáfnir, and heed it well,
learn it, 'twill lend thee strength,
follow it, 'twill further thee:
beshrew not the stranger, nor show him the door,
but rather do good to the wretched.

136. That bar must be strong shich unbars the door,
to each and every one:
show the beggar your back lest, bearing thee grudge,
he wish yo all manner of mischief.

137. Hear thou, Loddfáfnir, and heed it well,
learn it, 'twill lend thee strength,
follow it, 'twill further thee,
when ale thou drinkest invoke earth-strength;
[for earth is good ;gainst ale, 'gainst ague, fire,
'gainst straining, acorns, 'gainst witchery, steel,
'gains house-strife, the elder, 'gainst hate, the moon,
'gainst the rabies, alum 'gainst ill luck, runes--]
for earth absorbes the huumors all.