Anon Hsv 21VII
Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 21’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 373.
Ef at ýta lífi hyggr þú öllu saman
ok sér þeira siðu,
þat þú þá finnr, er fira reynir:
fár er vamma varr.
Ef þú hyggr at ýta lífi öllu saman ok sér þeira siðu, þá finnr þú þat, er reynir fira: fár er varr vamma.
If you consider men’s life altogether and look at their customs, then you notice that, when you try people: few are free of blemishes.
Mss: 1199ˣ(72v), 720a IV(1v), 723aˣ(77), 696XV(1r), 401ˣ(1r), 624(141)
Readings: [1] Ef at: ‘[...]’ 696XV; lífi: liði 696XV [2] öllu saman: allra saman 696XV, vandliga 624 [3] sér: ‘si[...]ꜳ̋’ 696XV, sér þú 401ˣ; þeira siðu: þeira siðu grant 723aˣ, ‘siðu þeir[...]’ 696XV [4] þat þú: ‘[...]’ 696XV; þá: om. 720a IV, 723aˣ, 401ˣ, 624, ‘[...]’ 696XV; finnr: finnr þá 723aˣ, ‘[...]’ 696XV [5] er: so 696XV, ef 1199ˣ, ef þú 720a IV, þá 723aˣ, þat þú 401ˣ, er þú 624; fira: so 624, fyrða 1199ˣ, 720a IV, 723aˣ, 696XV, om. 401ˣ; reynir: ‘reyne[...]’ 401ˣ [6] fár er: at fáir er 723aˣ, 696XV, at fáir eru 401ˣ, er færri 624; vamma: vámi 696XV
Editions: Skj AII, 172, Skj BII, 189, Skald II, 98; Hallgrímur Scheving 1831, 10, Konráð Gíslason 1860, 549, Gering 1907, 6, Tuvestrand 1977, 82, Hermann Pálsson 1985, 38.
Notes: [All]: Lat. parallel: (Dist. I, 5) Si vitam inspicias hominum, si denique mores, / cum culpant alios: nemo sine crimine vivit ‘If you look at the life of those men (and their ways of life) who find fault with others, [you will find that] nobody lives without fault’. — [6] fár er varr vamma ‘few are free of blemishes’: This l. is a variant of a common OIcel. saying. Cf. Hávm 22/6 (NK, 20): hann era vamma vanr ‘he is not free of blemishes’.
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 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.
- NK = Neckel, Gustav and Hans Kuhn (1899), eds. 1983. Edda: Die Lieder des Codex Regius nebst verwandten Denkmälern. 2 vols. I: Text. 5th edn. Heidelberg: Winter.
- 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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