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"Fire is needed by the newcomer 

Whose knees are frozen numb;

Meat and clean linen a man needs 

Who has fared across the fells," 

That sounds pretty obvious, doesn't it?

Many of our sayings or expressions have their roots in a time with quite other challenges than we have these days. Nevertheless they are speaking of basic values, like here:  Hospitality. 

The verse above is from Hávamál, which is presented as a single poem in the Poetic Edda, a collection of Old Norse poems from the Viking age. The poem, itself a combination of different poems, is largely gnomic, presenting advice for living, proper conduct and wisdom. Individual verses or stanzas certainly date to as early as the 10th, or even the 9th century. And still, we quote from them!

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