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128. I counsel thee, Lodfafner,
      To take advice;
      Thou wilt profit, if thou takest it.
      Wherever of injury thou knowest,
      Regard that injury as thy own;
      And give to thy foes no peace.

129. I counsel thee, Lodfafner,
      To take advice;
      Thou wilt profit, if thou takest it.
      Rejoiced at evil
      Be thou never,
      But let good give thee pleasure.

130. I counsel thee, Lodfafner,
      To take advice;
      Thou wilt profit, if thou takest it.
      In a battle
      Look not up,^[1]
      (Like swine^[2]
      The sons of men then become),
      That men may not fascinate thee.

131. If thou wilt induce a good woman
      To pleasant converse,
      Thou must promise fair,
      And hold to it:
      No one turns from good, if it can be got.

132. I enjoin thee to be wary,
      But not over-wary;
      At drinking be thou most wary,
      And with another's wife;
      And thirdly,
      That thieves delude thee not.

133. With insult or derision
      Treat thou never
      A guest or wayfarer;
      They often little know,

1. In a battle we must not look up, but forward.
2. To become panic-stricken, which the Norsemen called to become swine.