Slow Havamal: 118

In verse 118, Odin warns that he once saw the words of a bad woman bite a man in the neck. Her lying tongue caused his death without good reason.

While the bad man from last week’s verse takes advantage of your misfortune, his counterpart brings about misfortune with her words. The bad woman probably doesn’t have the means to waylay someone with a sword, so if she wants to harm her enemy, she has to use what women of most cultures and time periods could reliably wield: her words. ( Read more... )