Anon Hsv 117VII
Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 117’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 430.
Afl ok eljan ef þú eignaz vilt,
nem þú hyggindi hugar;
beztr sá þykkir, er bæði má
vitr ok sterkr vera.
Ef þú vilt eignaz afl ok eljan, nem þú hyggindi hugar; sá þykkir beztr, er bæði má vera vitr ok sterkr.
If you want to acquire strength and energy, learn wisdom of mind; he appears best, who can be both intelligent and strong.
Mss: 1199ˣ(75r), 720a IV(2r), 723aˣ(82), 624(146)
Readings: [2] vilt: hefir 624 [4] beztr sá þykkir: æ sá beztr þykkir 720a IV, æ þykkir sá beztr 723aˣ, sá betr virðiz 624; beztr: so 720a IV, 723aˣ, ‘besti’ 1199ˣ, betr 624
Editions: Skj AII, 191, Skj BII, 205, Skald II, 107; Hallgrímur Scheving 1831, 28, Gering 1907, 32, Tuvestrand 1977, 136, Hermann Pálsson 1985, 110.
Notes: [All]: Lat. parallel: (Dist. IV, 12) Cum tibi praevalidae fuerint in corpore vires, / fac sapias: sic tu poteris vir fortis haberi ‘If your strength in body is great for you, see to it that you are wise; thus you will be considered a strong man’. — [1] afl ok eljan: The alliterating phrase is also used in Rþ 44/5 (NK, 286) and Angantýr Lv 11/5VIII (Heiðr 48).
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.
- NK = Neckel, Gustav and Hans Kuhn (1899), eds. 1983. Edda: Die Lieder des Codex Regius nebst verwandten Denkmälern. 2 vols. I: Text. 5th edn. Heidelberg: Winter.
- Hallgrímur Scheving, ed. 1831. Hugsvinnsmál, ásamt þeirra látinska frumriti. Skóla hátið. Viðeyar Klaustri: prentuð af Helga Helgasyni, á kostnað Bessastaða Skóla.
- Internal references
- 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 367. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=23> (accessed 20 April 2024)
- Not published: do not cite ()
- Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 46 (Angantýr Arngrímsson, Lausavísur 11)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 405.
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