Anon Hsv 20VII
Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 20’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 372-3.
Ýmisgjarn vertu aldrigi,
ok sáttr vertu við sjálfan þik;
seggjum öngum verðr samhuga,
ef hann er sundrþykkr við sik.
Vertu aldrigi ýmisgjarn, ok vertu sáttr við þik sjálfan; verðr samhuga öngum seggjum, ef hann er sundrþykkr við sik.
Never be wayward, and be at peace with yourself; [one] comes to agreement with no-one, if he is not in agreement with himself.
Mss: 1199ˣ(72v), 720a IV(1v), 723aˣ(77), 696XV(1r), 401ˣ(1r) (ll. 2-6), 624(141)
Readings: [1] Ýmisgjarn: ‘Omis giar[...]’ 696XV [3] ok: om. 720a IV, 723aˣ, 696XV, 624; sáttr: sæzt 723aˣ; vertu: om. 723aˣ, 401ˣ; sjálfan þik: ‘[...]’ 696XV [4] seggjum: við seggja 720a IV, 723aˣ, ‘vid [...]’ 696XV [5] verðr: verðr sá 720a IV, 624, verðr manni 696XV, verðr maðr sá 401ˣ; samhuga: samhugi 401ˣ [6] ef: er 720a IV, 723aˣ, ‘ef hega’ 696XV; hann er: om. 723aˣ; sundrþykkr: sundrþykkiz 723aˣ, ‘sund[...]’ 696XV; við sik: ‘[...]’ 696XV, ‘við s[...]’ 401ˣ, við sjálfan sik 624
Editions: Skj AII, 173, Skj BII, 189, Skald II, 98, NN §3266B Anm.; Hallgrímur Scheving 1831, 10, Konráð Gíslason 1860, 549, Gering 1907, 6, Tuvestrand 1977, 82, Hermann Pálsson 1985, 37.
Notes: [All]: Lat. parallel: (Dist. I, 4) Sperne repugnando tibi tu contrarius esse: / conveniet nulli, qui secum dissidet ipse ‘Strongly avoid being contrary to yourself; he agrees with no one who disagrees with himself’.
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 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.
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