Stanza 152

Original Old Norse:	Auden & Taylor:	Bellows:	Bray:
Þat kann ek it sjaunda ef ek sé hávan loga sal um sessmögum brennrat svá breitt at ek honum bjargigak þann kann ek galdr at gala	I know a seventh: If I see the hall Ablaze around my bench mates, Though hot the flames, they shall feel nothing, If I choose to chant the spell.	153. A seventh I know, | if I see in flames The hall o'er my comrades' heads; It burns not so wide | that I will not quench it, I know that song to sing.	151. A seventh I know: if I see a hall high o'er the bench-mates blazing, flame it ne'er so fiercely I still can save it, -- I know how to sing that song.
Chisholm:	Hollander:	Terry:	Thorpe:
I know a seventh. If I see a fire high on the hall around my bench companions, I can help them by singing the spell.	That seventh I know, if o'er sleepers' heads I behold a hall on fire: however bright the blaze I can beat it down-- that mighty spell I can speak.	I know a seventh: if I see flames high around a hall, no matter how far the fire has spread my spell can stop it.	154. For the seventh I know, if a lofty house I see blaze o’er its inmates, so furiously it shall not burn that I cannot save it. That song I can sing.
In today's fire-wrought landscape that is America, how cool would this spell be?