Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 74’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 405.
Sögvísum manni skaltu sjaldan trúa,
þeim er með rógi rennr,
þvít málugs manns reynaz margar sögur
lýða kind at lygi.
Skaltu sjaldan trúa sögvísum manni, þeim er rennr með rógi, þvít margar sögur málugs manns reynaz lýða kind at lygi.
‘You must seldom believe a tattling man who runs with slander, because many stories of a talkative man prove to be lies for the race of men.’
Lat. parallel: (Dist. II, 20) Noli tu quaedam referenti credere semper: / exigua est tribuenda fides, qui multa locuntur ‘Do not always believe someone who bears reports; little credence is to be paid to those who speak many things’.
Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.
Sógvijsum manne skalltu sialldan | trua, þeim er med rögi rennur; þuiad mälugs mans reinast margar sógur. lýda | kýnd ad lýgie.
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mälugra manna reinast margar sógur,
(VEÞ)
Sögvísum manni
skaltu sjaldan trúa,
þeim er með rógi rennr,
málugra manna
reynaz margar sögur
lýða kind at lygi.
Savgvisvm manni skaltv sialldan trua þeim er | med rogi renur · malvgra manna ʀeynaz margar sogur lyda kínd at lygi ·
(VEÞ)
Sóguijsum manne skaltu sialldann trüa, | þeim er med rögie rennur, mälugra manna reinaz margar | sógur, lijda kind at lijge.
(VEÞ)
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], [C. E/5]. Hugsvinnsmál 75: AII, 183-4, BII, 198, Skald II, 103, NN §112; Hallgrímur Scheving 1831, 19, Konráð Gíslason 1860, 551, Gering 1907, 21, Tuvestrand 1977, 113, Hermann Pálsson 1985, 80.
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