Anon Hsv 149VII
Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 149’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 448-9.
Hugsvinns ‘Hugsvinns’
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hugsvinnr (adj.): wise-minded, Hugsvinnr < hugsvinnsmál (noun n.)
mál ‘mál’
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1. mál (noun n.; °-s; -): speech, matter < hugsvinnsmál (noun n.)
[1] ‑mál: so 624, om. 1199ˣ
hef ‘’
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hafa (verb): have
læt ‘let’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
[2] læt ek fyrir hölðum kveðin: so 624, hef ek nú hljóðin kveðit 1199ˣ
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
[2] læt ek fyrir hölðum kveðin: so 624, hef ek nú hljóðin kveðit 1199ˣ
nú ‘’
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nú (adv.): now
fyrir ‘before’
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fyrir (prep.): for, before, because of
[2] læt ek fyrir hölðum kveðin: so 624, hef ek nú hljóðin kveðit 1199ˣ
hljóðin ‘’
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hljóð (noun n.; °-s; -): sound, silence, a hearing
hölðum ‘people’
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hǫlðr (noun m.; °-s; -ar): man
[2] læt ek fyrir hölðum kveðin: so 624, hef ek nú hljóðin kveðit 1199ˣ
kveðin ‘be recited’
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2. kveðja (verb; kvaddi): (dd) request, address, greet
[2] læt ek fyrir hölðum kveðin: so 624, hef ek nú hljóðin kveðit 1199ˣ
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
ýtum ‘’
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ýtr (noun m.): man; launcher
ráð ‘advice’
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ráð (noun n.; °-s; -): advice, plan, control, power
hyggins ‘of a wise’
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hygginn (adj.; °comp. -ari, superl. -astr): intelligent
manns ‘man’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person
leysta ‘’
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leysa (verb): release, loosen, redeem
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
hölða ‘’
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hǫlðr (noun m.; °-s; -ar): man
hug ‘the fore’
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hugr (noun m.): mind, thought, courage < hugspeki (noun f.)
[5] hugspeki: hölða speka 624
speka ‘’
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speki (noun f.; °-): wisdom
speki ‘sight’
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speki (noun f.; °-): wisdom < hugspeki (noun f.)
[5] hugspeki: hölða speka 624
hér ‘here’
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hér (adv.): here
er ‘is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
nú ‘now’
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nú (adv.): now
ljóðum ‘the poem’
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ljóð (noun n.; °; -): poem
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The correspondence is not very close to the disticha here (cf. Dist. IV, 49, quoted in Notes to st. 145). The closing st. is probably the translator’s own composition. — [1-3]: 1199ˣ’s text again has problems: Hugsvinns | hef ek nú hljóðin kveðit, | ok kenda ek ýtum ráð ‘I have now composed the ?sounds of a wise man and I taught advice to men’. Line 3 lacks alliteration. Likewise, if hljóðin is emended to *ljóðin ‘the verses, the poem’, as in sts 103 and 145, to make sense of ll. 1-2, the alliteration is removed. 624’s text is consequently used here.
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