Editing Hávamál (section)

===''Gestaþáttr''===
The first section '''''Gestaþáttr''''', the "guest's section". Stanzas 1 through 79 comprise a set of maxims for how to handle oneself when a guest and traveling, focusing particularly on [[manners]] and other behavioral relationships between hosts and guests and the sacred [[Folklore|lore]] of [[Norm of reciprocity|reciprocity]] and [[hospitality]] to the [[Norse paganism|Norse pagans]].

The first stanza exemplifies the practical behavioral advice it offers:

"Gattir allar,<br />
aþr gangi fram,<br />
v''m'' scoðaz scyli,<br />
v''m'' scygnaz scyli;<br />
þviat ouist e''r'' at vita,<br />
hvar ovin''ir'' sitia<br />
a fleti f''yr''."<ref group=note>Quoted after the [[Codex Regius]].</ref>

''All the entrances, before you walk forward,''<br />
''you should look at,''<br />
''you should spy out;''<br />
''for you can't know for certain where enemies are sitting,''<br />
''ahead in the hall''<ref name=LARRINGTON14/>

Number 77 is possibly the most known section of ''Gestaþáttr'':

"Deyr fę,<br />
d''eyia'' f''rǫndr'',<br />
deyr sialfr it sama;<br /> 
ec veit ei''nn''<br />
at aldri deýr:<br />
do''m''r v''m'' dꜹþan hv''er''n."

''Cattle die,''<br />
''kinsmen die,''<br />
''all men are mortal;''<br />
''but words of praise will never perish''<br />
''nor a noble name.''<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Poetic Edda: The Heroic Poems|last=Bellows|first=Henry Adams|publisher=Dover Publications|year=2012}}</ref>