[5]: Similar advice is provided in Anon Hsv 42/1-3VII fláráðs manns orði, | þótt fagrt mæli, | þarftu eigi þeim at trúa ‘you need not believe the word of a deceitful man, even though he may speak fair’. Parallels in phrasing occur in Hávm 45. Cf. Bjarnar saga Hítdœlakappa (BjH ch. 11, ÍF 3, 138).
References
- Bibliography
- ÍF 3 = Borgfirðinga sǫgur. Ed. Sigurður Nordal and Guðni Jónsson. 1938.
- Internal references
- 2022, ‘ Anonymous, Bjarnar saga Hítdœlakappa’ in Margaret Clunies Ross, Kari Ellen Gade and Tarrin Wills (eds), Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 5. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 60-121. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=72> (accessed 28 March 2024)
- Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 42’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 386.
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