Anon Hsv 39VII
Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 39’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 384.
Vinir þínir þótt þér verr dugi,
en þú þykkiz verðr vera,
þess meins völd kenn þú eigi þínum guði,
saka þú heldr sjálfan þik.
Þótt vinir þínir dugi þér verr, en þú þykkiz verðr vera, kenn þú eigi þess meins völd guði þínum; saka þú heldr þik sjálfan.
Although your friends may help you less than you think you deserve, do not fault your God for the cause of that evil; you should instead blame yourself.
Mss: 1199ˣ(72v-73r), 723aˣ(79), 696XV(1v) (ll. 1-5), 401ˣ(1r), 624(142)
Readings: [2] þótt: þó 723aˣ, 401ˣ, ef 624; þér: ‘[...]’ 401ˣ; dugi: duga 696XV, 624 [3] en þú þykkiz verðr vera: en þú verðr þykkiz 723aˣ, ‘[...]r verra’ 696XV [4] þess meins völd: so 696XV, 401ˣ, 624, þess manns völd 1199ˣ, om. 723aˣ [5] kenn þú eigi: kenn þú þat eigi 723aˣ, kenndu ekki 696XV, kenna áttu eigi 624; guði: om. 401ˣ [6] heldr: om. 401ˣ, 624; þik: ‘þi[...]’ 401ˣ
Editions: Skj AII, 176, Skj BII, 192, Skald II, 100; Hallgrímur Scheving 1831, 13, Konráð Gíslason 1860, 550, Gering 1907, 11, Tuvestrand 1977, 92, Hermann Pálsson 1985, 53.
Notes: [All]: Lat. parallel: (Dist. I, 23) Si tibi pro meritis nemo respondet amicus, / incusare deos noli, sed te ipse coerce ‘If no friend stands up for you according to your deserts, do not accuse the gods, but restrain yourself’. — [4] meins ‘of evil’: Comparison with the Lat. text does not allow any conclusion as to whether the main ms. reading, manns ‘man’s’, is the original.
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Tuvestrand, Birgitta, ed. 1977. Hugsvinnsmál: Handskrifter och kritisk text. Lundastudier i nordisk språkvetenskap A:29. Lund: Blom.
- Hermann Pálsson, ed. 1985a. Áhrif Hugsvinnsmála á aðrar fornbókmenntir. Studia Islandica/Íslensk Fræði 43. Reykjavík: Menningarsjóður.
- Gering, Hugo, ed. 1907. Hugsvinnsmál. Eine altisländische Übersetzung der Disticha Catonis. Kiel: Lipsius & Tischer.
- Hallgrímur Scheving, ed. 1831. Hugsvinnsmál, ásamt þeirra látinska frumriti. Skóla hátið. Viðeyar Klaustri: prentuð af Helga Helgasyni, á kostnað Bessastaða Skóla.
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