Anon Hsv 112VII
Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 112’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 427.
Líkama sinn ræki lýða hverr;
heilsa er hölðum framar;
aura njóta þykkiz engi maðr,
nema hann heilsu hafi.
Hverr lýða ræki líkama sinn; heilsa er framar hölðum; engi maðr þykkiz njóta aura, nema hann hafi heilsu.
Every man should look after his body; health is very important to men; nobody thinks to enjoy his money, unless he is healthy.
Mss: 1199ˣ(74v), 720a IV(2r), 723aˣ(82)
Readings: [1] Líkama: líkam 720a IV, 723aˣ [3] hölðum: hverju 720a IV, 723aˣ [5] engi: enginn 723aˣ [6] hann: om. 723aˣ
Editions: Skj AII, 190, Skj BII, 204, Skald II, 107; Hallgrímur Scheving 1831, 27, Gering 1907, 30, Tuvestrand 1977, 133, Hermann Pálsson 1985, 106-7.
Notes: [All]: Lat. parallel: (Dist. IV, 5) Cum fueris locuples, corpus curare memento: / aeger dives habet nummos, se non habet ipsum ‘When you become rich, remember to take care of your body; a sick rich man has wealth, but he does not have himself’. The contrast between wealth and health is also mentioned in Sól 8.
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.
- Internal references
- Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 8’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 300-1.
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