The Javamal with Dr Ben: Recent Episodes
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Grab your favorite cup of coffee and join Dr Ben for the Javamal. Each episode, Dr. Ben takes a verse of the Havamal and breaks it down for you from the original Old Norse and highlights the modern applications of the Words of the High One.
This week Ben discusses verse 4 of the Havamal
He craves for water, who comes for refreshment, drying and friendly bidding, marks of good will, fair fame if ’tis won, and welcome once and again. — Olive Bray Translation
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This week Ben looks at verse 3 of the Havamal with his trusty Black and Decker coffee maker
He hath need of fire, who now is come, numbed with cold to the knee; food and clothing the wanderer craves who has fared o’er the rimy fell.
– Olive Bray translation
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Episode 2 brings Verse 2 of the Havamal, with insight and breakdown from Ben Waggoner.
Hail, ye Givers! a guest is come; say! where shall he sit within? Much pressed is he who fain on the hearth would seek for warmth and weal.
– Olive Bray Translation
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In the inaugural episode of the Javamal, host Ben Waggoner goes in depth with the first verse of the Havamal
At every door-way, ere one enters, one should spy round, one should pry round for uncertain is the witting that there be no foeman sitting, within, before one on the floor -Olive Bray translation
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