Stories and Ballads of the Far Past / Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes

by Nora K. Chadwick

[Footnote 1:] Presumably a corruption of Gestumblindi.

GÁTU RÍMA.[°]

1. Guest goes wandering from the hall,

Silent and blind is he;

Meets he with an eldern man

All with hair so grey.

2. Meets he with an eldern man,

All with hair so grey;

"Why art thou so silent, Guest the Blind,