Havamal Snippets 136: Make sure your door has a good lock

This stanza is a continuation of the previous stanza 135 (which stresses the importance of treating guests well) because it highlights that in addition to treating guests well, hosts should also have a good & securable door (in Viking times this meant a beam across the door, in modern times this means a Yale lock) which the home-owner can use to keep out unwanted or malevolent people.

136 Rammt er þat tré er ríða skal öllum at upploki baug þú gef eða þat biðja mun þér læs hvers á liðu   Powerful is that beam that must move from side to side to open for all; give a ring, or it will call down every evil on your limbs [End.]

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