Anon Hsv 127VII
Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 127’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 436.
Hyggindi þína láttu at haldi koma
þér ok þínum vinum;
æðri sýslu máttu eigi hafa,
en kenna nýtt ok nema.
Láttu hyggindi þína koma at haldi þér ok vinum þínum; máttu eigi hafa æðri sýslu, en kenna ok nema nýtt.
Let your wisdom come to be a support for you and your friends; you cannot have a more important job than to teach and learn something useful.
Mss: 1199ˣ(75r), 723aˣ(84), 624(146-147)
Readings: [1] Hyggindi: so 723aˣ, 624, hyggenda 1199ˣ; þína: þín 723aˣ, 624 [2] láttu: lát þér 624 [4] æðri: enga 624 [5] máttu eigi hafa: fær maðr aldri 723aˣ, máttu þér æðri geta 624 [6] nýtt: so 723aˣ, 624, gott 1199ˣ
Editions: Skj AII, 193, Skj BII, 206-7, Skald II, 108; Hallgrímur Scheving 1831, 34, Gering 1907, 34, Tuvestrand 1977, 141, Hermann Pálsson 1985, 116.
Notes: [All]: Lat. parallels: (Dist. IV, 23) Disce sed a doctis, indoctos ipse doceto: / propaganda etenim est rerum doctrina bonarum ‘Learn, but from the learned; teach the unlearned yourself; for the knowledge of good things should be spread abroad’. (Dist. IV, 27) Discere ne cessa, cura sapientia crescat: / rara datur longo prudentia temporis usu ‘Do not cease learning; taking pains increases wisdom; rarely is a long space of time given to prudence’. — [6] nýtt ‘(something) useful’: 1199ˣ’s reading gott ‘(something) good’ does not provide alliteration, although it is closer to the Lat. text.
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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