Anon Hsv 115VII
Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 115’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 428-9.
Fljóta ‘a quick’
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2. fljótr (adj.): quick
raun ‘test’
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raun (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): ordeal, proof, experience
[1, 2] raun skaltu: skaltu raun 720a IV
skaltu ‘You must’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
[1, 2] raun skaltu: skaltu raun 720a IV
við ‘for’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
flest ‘everything’
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fleiri (adj. comp.; °superl. flestr): more, most
hafa ‘have’
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hafa (verb): have
grun ‘suspicious’
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grunr (noun m.): suspicion, deceit < grunsamligr (adj.)
samligt ‘’
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-samligr (adj.): (having the quality) < grunsamligr (adj.)
geriz ‘is’
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1. gera (verb): do, make
leyndir ‘secret’
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1. leyna (verb): hide, conceal
lestir ‘vices’
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lǫstr (noun m.; °lastar, dat. lesti/lǫst; lestir, acc. lǫstu/lasta(Mar655XXXII 462)): fault, sin
lengi ‘for a long time’
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lengi (adv.): for a long time
felaz ‘have been hidden’
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2. fela (verb): hide
oft ‘’
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opt (adv.): often
mörgum ‘many people’
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2. margr (adj.; °-an): many
mein ‘harm’
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mein (noun n.; °-s; -): harm, injury
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Lat. parallel: (Dist. IV, 9) Quod tibi suspectum est, confestim discute, quid sit / namque solent, primo quae sunt neglecta, nocere ‘Whatever is suspect to you, immediately test what it is; for those things which are at first ignored are often accustomed to do harm’. Unusually, 1199ˣ and 624 present identical text for this st., with fairly minor variants occurring in the other mss.
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