Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 65’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 400-1.
Engan þú fyrirlít, þótt aflvani sé
eða ljótr ok lágskapaðr;
margr er hygginn, þótt herviligr sé,
ok mjök lítit megi.
Fyrirlít þú engan, þótt sé aflvani, eða ljótr ok lágskapaðr; margr er hygginn, þótt sé herviligr, ok megi mjök lítit.
‘You should not look down on anybody, although he may be deficient in strength or ugly and short; many a one is intelligent, although he may be wretched and is capable of very little.’
Lat. parallel: (Dist. II, 9) Corporis exigui vires contemnere noli: / consilio pollet, cui vim natura negavit ‘Do not disdain the powers of a small body; [the man] to whom nature denied strength may be strong in counsel’. Cf. Sól 34. Further parallels occur in Hávm 10 and 75.
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Engan þú fyrirlít,
þótt aflvani sé
eða ljótr ok lágskapaðr;
margr er hygginn,
þótt herviligr sé,
eða ljótr ok lágskapaðr .
Øngvann þu fyrerlijt þo Aflvani sie, eda liötur og lagskapadur. Margur er higg | inn þo herfilegur sie, eda liötur og lägskapadur. Margur er higginn þo |
(VEÞ)
Engan þú fyrirlít,
þótt hann sé álfvani
ljótr ok lágr er margr skapaðr;
þó er sá margr hygginn,
er herviligr er sýnar ,
maðr þó lítit megi .
Aungan þv firer lit þott hann se alfvani · liotur ok lagur er margr | skapadur þo er sa margur hygin er herfiligur er synar madur þo litit meigi:
(VEÞ)
Engan þú fyrirlítir,
þótt álfvani sé
ljótr ok lágr skapaðr margr er;
margr er hygginn,
þótt sé herviligir ,
ok mjök lítit megi.
Avngan þv firer liter þott alfuane se · liotur ok lagur skapadur | margur er margur er hyggín þott se heruiligur ok mioc litit meigi ·
(VEÞ)
Aunguan þu firer lijt þö hann sie Aflvane, liötur og | la̋gur, er margur skapadur þö er sä margur higginn, er herfe | legur er sijnar, madur þö ad mege lijted.
(VEÞ)
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], [C. E/5]. Hugsvinnsmál 66: AII, 182, BII, 196, Skald II, 102; Hallgrímur Scheving 1831, 18, Gering 1907, 18-19, Tuvestrand 1977, 108, Hermann Pálsson 1985, 73.
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