Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 32’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 317.
Vinsamlig ráð ok viti bundin
kenni ek þér sjau saman;
görla þau mun ok glata aldri;
öll eru þau nýt at nema.
Ek kenni þér sjau ráð saman, vinsamlig ok bundin viti; mun þau görla ok glata aldri; þau eru öll nýt at nema.
‘I teach you seven counsels in all, friendly and bound with wit; remember them fully and never forget them; they are all useful to learn.’
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Vinsamlig ráð
ok viti bundin
kunni ek þér sjau saman;
görla þau mun
ok glata aldri;
öll eru þau nýt at nema.
Vinsamlig ráð
ok viti bundin
kenni ek þér sjau saman;
görla þú nem
ok glata aldri;
öll eru þau nýt at nema.
Vinsamlig ráð
ok viti bundin
kenni ek þér sjau saman;
görla þú mun
ok glata aldri;
öll eru þau nýt at nema.
Vinsamlig ráð
ok viti bundin
kenni ek þér sjau saman;
görla þau mun
ok glata aldri;
öll eru þau nýt at nema.
Vinsamlig ráð
ok viti bundin
kenni ek þér sjau saman;
görla þú man
ok glata aldri;
öll eru þau nýt at nema.
Vinsamlig ráð
ok viti bundin
kenni ek þér sjau saman;
görla þau nem
ok glata aldri;
öll eru þau nýt at nema.
Uinsamlig raþ | ok uiti bundin | keɴi ek þer siau saman | georla þau nem | ok glata aldri | auL ero þau nit at nema
(TW)
Vinsamlig ráð
ok viti bundin
kenni ek þér sjau saman;
görla þú nem
ok glata aldri;
öll eru þau nýt at nema.
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], G [6]. Sólarljóð 32: AI, 633, BI, 640, Skald I, 311, NN §2564A; Bugge 1867, 362, Falk 1914, 14, Björn M. Ólsen 1915, 13, Fidjestøl 1979, 64, Njörður Njarðvík 1991, 65, Njörður Njarðvík 1993, 38, 113.
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