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Speech of Odhinn

I know I hung on that

Windswept tree, swung

There for nine long nights,

Wounded by my own blade,

Bloodied for Odhinn,

Myself and offering to

Myself, bound to the tree,

That no man knows wither

The roots of it run,

None gave me bread, none

Game me drink, down to

The deepest depths I peered

Until I spied the runes with

A roaring cry I seized them

Up, then dizzy and fainting I

Fell. Well, being I won

And wisdom too I grew and

Took joy in my growth, from

A word to a word, I was

Led to a word, from a

Deed to another deed.