Anon Hsv 136VII
Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 136’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 441.
Engi ‘Nobody’
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2. engi (pron.): no, none
treysti ‘may trust too much’
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treysta (verb): trust, believe in < oftreysta (verb)
[1] oftreysti: oftreystiz 624
þótt ‘even if’
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þó (adv.): though
gamall ‘old’
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gamall (adj.; °gamlan; compar. & superl. ellri adj.): old
at ‘that’
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4. at (conj.): that
lengi ‘long’
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lengi (adv.): for a long time
lifa ‘live’
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lifa (verb): live
skugga ‘shadow’
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skuggi (noun m.; °-a; -ar): shadow
sinn ‘their’
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3. sinn (pron.; °f. sín, n. sitt): (refl. poss. pron.)
hygg ‘think’
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2. hyggja (verb): think, consider
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
eigi ‘not’
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3. eigi (adv.): not
skatna ‘men’
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skati (noun m.; °-a; -nar): chieftan, prince
[5] mega skatna flýja: skatna flýja mega 624
flýja ‘escape’
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flýja (verb): to flee, take flight
[5] mega skatna flýja: skatna flýja mega 624
né ‘nor’
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né (conj.): nor
heldr ‘’
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heldr (adv.): rather
forðaz ‘avoid’
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forða (verb): escape, avoid
feigð ‘the approach of death’
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feigð (noun f.): death
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Lat. parallel: (Dist. IV, 37) Tempora longa tibi noli promittere vitae: / quocumque ingrederis, sequitur mors corporis umbra ‘Do not promise yourself a long stretch of life; wherever you go death, the shadow of the body, follows’. The advice to be wary of sudden death is also given in Hsv 38. Cf. also Hávm 16 (NK, 19): Ósniallr maðr | hyggz muno ey lifa, | ef hann við víg varaz ‘The foolish man thinks he will live for ever, if he keeps away from fighting’ (Larrington 1996, 16). The same idea is expressed in Has 43.
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