Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 15’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 369-70.
Af afli þínu vertu óhræsinn,
ok launa þú góðu gott;
annars eign girnztu aldrigi;
unn, þeim er elskar þik.
Vertu óhræsinn af afli þínu, ok launa þú góðu gott; girnztu aldrigi annars eign; unn, þeim er elskar þik.
‘Do not be boastful about your strength, and return good with good; never desire somebody else’s property; love the one who loves you.’
Lat. parallels: (sent. 48) nihil arbitrio virium feceris ‘do not do anything with the authority of force’; (sent. 50) benefici accepti esto memor ‘remember a benefit [you have] received’; (sent. 54) alienum noli concupiscere ‘do not covet what belongs to someone else’; (sent. 56) libenter amorem ferto ‘show affection freely’.
Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.
Af afli þínu
vera skaltu óhræsinn,
ok launa þú góðu gott;
annars eign
girnztu aldrigi;
unn, þeim er elskar þik.
Af Afli þijnu vera skalltu Öhræsinn, og launa þu gödu gott | Annars Eign girnstu alldrei. Vnn þeim er Elska þig.
(VEÞ)
Af afli þínu
vertu eigi hræsinn,
launa þú góðu gott;
á annars eign
girnztu aldrigi;
unn þú, þeim er elskar þik.
A f afli þinnu wertu | eigi hræsinn· launa þu godu gott ꜳ annar[s] | eign girst þu alldrei· wnn þu þeim er elskar þic |
(TW)
†[...]li† þínu
vertu óhræsinn,
†þo at þu hafer megn[...]þ jafnt ueiter þad e[...] miog hæl[...]z og er [...]† góðu gott;
annars eign
girnztu aldrigi;
unn, þeim er elskar þik.
li þinu uertv ohræsin þo at þu hafer megn[...] | þ jafnt ueiter þad e[...] miog hæl[...]z og er [...] |
(VEÞ)
Af afli þínu
vertu óhræsinn,
launa þú góðu gott;
annars eign
girnztu aldrigi;
unn þú, þeim er elskar þik.
af aflli þínv verttu o | hræsin launadu godv gott · anars eign girnztu alldri vnnþu | þeim er elskar þik
(VEÞ)
af Afle þijnu vertu | öhræsinn, launadu gődu gott, Annarz eigum | girnstu Alldrei, vnn þu þeim er elskar þig, |
(VEÞ)
Ad aflí þin[d] skaltv eigi hræsín vera· lavra þv godv gott a[narS] eí|gn grinz· þv alldri ad hafa· vnn þv þ[eimer] elska þic
(TW)
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], [C. E/5]. Hugsvinnsmál 15: AII, 171, BII, 188, Skald II, 98, NN §3266B Anm.; Hallgrímur Scheving 1831, 9, Gering 1907, 4-5, Tuvestrand 1977, 79, Hermann Pálsson 1985, 34.
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