Anon Hsv 23VII
Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 23’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 374-5.
Blíðr þú vert en stundum bráðskapaðr,
ef geraz þarfir þess;
vel má þat verða at skipti vitr maðr geði,
þótt hann lastvarr lifi.
Vert þú blíðr en stundum bráðskapaðr, ef geraz þarfir þess; þat má vel verða, at vitr maðr skipti geði, þótt hann lifi lastvarr.
Be friendly but sometimes of hasty disposition if it becomes necessary; it can well happen, that a wise man becomes angry, although he lives virtuously.
Mss: 1199ˣ(72v), 720a IV(1v), 723aˣ(77), 401ˣ(1r), 624(141)
Readings: [4] má þat verða: ‘ma verd[...]’ 401ˣ, þat þykkir 624 [5] at: þó 624; skipti vitr maðr: vitr maðr skipti 723aˣ, skipti vinr 401ˣ, skipti vitr 624; geði: reiði 624 [6] þótt: þó 723aˣ, 401ˣ; hann: om. 723aˣ
Editions: Skj AII, 173, Skj BII, 189, Skald II, 98-9; Hallgrímur Scheving 1831, 10, Gering 1907, 7, Tuvestrand 1977, 83, Hermann Pálsson 1985, 39-40.
Notes: [All]: Lat. parallel: (Dist. I, 7) Clemens et constans, ut res expostulat, esto: / temporibus mores sapiens sine crimine mutat ‘Be constant and kind, as the case demands; the wise man changes his ways without fault as the times require’. — [1]: The advice to be blíðr ‘affable’ or blíðmæltr ‘affable, bland’ is also given in Hsv 8 and 90.
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.
- Hallgrímur Scheving, ed. 1831. Hugsvinnsmál, ásamt þeirra látinska frumriti. Skóla hátið. Viðeyar Klaustri: prentuð af Helga Helgasyni, á kostnað Bessastaða Skóla.
- Internal references
- Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 8’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 365.
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