[Old Norse]

Ein sat hon úti

Þá er inn aldni kom

Yggjungr ása

Ok í augu leit

Hvers fregnið mik?

Hví freistið mín?

Alt veit ek, Óðinn

Hvar þú auga falt

Í inum mœra

Mímis brunni

Drekkr mjöð Mímir

Morgin hverjan

Af veði Valföðrs

Vituð ér enn eða hvat?

[English translation]

Alone I sat

When the Old One sought me

The terror of gods

And gazed in mine eyes:

"What hast thou to ask?

Why comest thou hither?

Othin, I know

Where thine eye is hidden."

I know where Othin's

Eye is hidden

Deep in the wide-famed

Well of Mimir

Mead from the pledgе

Of Othin each mom

Does Mimir drink:

Would you know yet morе?