Brynhild (character from the 13th-century Saga of the Volsungs)
“Control your temper with foolish men at crowded gatherings, for they frequently speak worse than they know.”
- From The Saga of the Volsungs (chapter 22), by an anonymous 13th century Icelander, translated by Jesse L. Byock (Penguin Classics, 1990, 1999).
