Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 92’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 415-16.
Höfugt erfiði ef þér at höndum kemr,
vertu glaðmæltr gumi;
fagnandi maðr neytir flest at vinna;
öll eru lostverk létt.
Ef höfugt erfiði kemr at höndum þér, vertu glaðmæltr gumi; fagnandi maðr neytir at vinna flest; öll lostverk eru létt.
If a difficult problem comes your way, be a cheerfully-speaking man; a joyful man manages to achieve most things; all labours of love are easy.
Mss: 1199ˣ(74r)
Editions: Skj AII, 187, Skj BII, 201, Skald II, 105; Hallgrímur Scheving 1831, 23, Gering 1907, 25, Tuvestrand 1977, 123, Hermann Pálsson 1985, 93.
Notes: [All]: Lat. parallel: (Dist. III, 6) Interpone tuis interdum gaudia curis, / ut possis animo quemvis sufferre laborem ‘Intersperse your cares now and again with joy, that you may be able to bear in your mind any kind of hardship’.
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