Anon Hsv 146VII
Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 146’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 447.
At ‘from’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
hyggnum ‘intelligent’
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hygginn (adj.; °comp. -ari, superl. -astr): intelligent
mönnum ‘men’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person
nem ‘Learn’
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1. nema (verb): to take
þú ‘’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
horsklig ‘wise’
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horskligr (adj.): [to wise, wise]
ráð ‘advice’
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ráð (noun n.; °-s; -): advice, plan, control, power
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
lát ‘let’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
þér ‘your’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
í ‘inside’
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í (prep.): in, into
brjósti ‘breast’
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brjóst (noun n.; °-s; -): breast, chest
[3] brjósti: so 720a IV, 723aˣ, om. 1199ˣ
örþrífs ‘at a loss’
ráða ‘for what to do’
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-ráði (adj.): [for what to do] < ørþrifsráði (adj.)
verðr ‘becomes’
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1. verða (verb): become, be
aldrigi ‘never’
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aldrigi (adv.): never
sem ‘who’
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sem (conj.): as, which
girniz ‘is eager’
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girna (verb): desire
margt ‘much’
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2. margr (adj.; °-an): many
at ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
muna ‘remember’
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1. muna (verb): remember
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Lat. parallels: Dist. IV, 23, 27 – cf. st. 127; (Dist. IV, 48) Cum tibi contingerit studio cognoscere multa, / fac discas multa, vita nescire doceri ‘If you come to know many things through study, see to it that you learn many things, from life you will not know to learn’. The topic of this st. occurs quite often in the Disticha, so it is difficult to determine which distich the translation is based on. In all 3 mss, the st. is included after st. 143, translating Dist. IV, 43, and before 147.
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