Anon Hsv 128VII
Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 128’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 436-7.
Illa láta skaltu yfir engum hlut,
þeim er þú hælt hefir,
né þat lasta, sem þú lofat hefir;
ilt er vályndum at vera.
Skaltu láta illa yfir engum hlut, þeim er þú hefir hælt, né lasta þat, sem þú hefir lofat; vályndum er ilt at vera.
You must express disapproval about nothing that you have boasted about, nor deride what you have praised; it is bad to be fickle-minded.
Mss: 1199ˣ(75r), 723aˣ(84), 624(147)
Readings: [3] er þú: áðr 723aˣ [4, 5] né þat lasta sem þú lofat: vel þat leyfug, er þú lastat 624 [6] vályndum: veillyndum 624
Editions: Skj AII, 193, Skj BII, 207, Skald II, 108; Hallgrímur Scheving 1831, 30, Gering 1907, 35, Tuvestrand 1977, 141, Hermann Pálsson 1985, 117.
Notes: [All]: Lat. parallel: (Dist. IV, 25) Laudaris quodcumque palam, quodcumque probaris, / hoc vide ne rursus levitatis crimine damnes ‘Praise openly whatever you have tested out; live so that you are not then accused of the crime of flightiness’. — [6]: The last l. may have been influenced by Sól 3.
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) 2019, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 3’ in Edith Marold, Vivian Busch and Jana Krüger (eds), Runic Poetry. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 6. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 297.
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