Anon Hsv 28VII
Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 28’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 377-8.
ill ‘’
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illr (adj.): bad, evil, unwell
er ‘that’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
upp ‘up’
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upp (adv.): up
koma ‘comes’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
reif ‘’
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rífa (verb): tear
hreyfðu ‘’
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hreyfa (verb): gloat
þú ‘’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
[3] ræð þú: hreyfðu 723aˣ, reif þú 696XV
fyrstr ‘the first’
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fyrstr (num. ordinal): first
með ‘with’
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með (prep.): with
fyrðum ‘’
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2. fyrðr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -): man
firum ‘men’
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firar (noun m.): men
[3] firum: so 624, fyrðum 1199ˣ, 401ˣ, ‘fyrd[...]’ 696XV
betra ‘better’
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betri (adj. comp.; °superl. beztr/baztr; pos. góðr adj.): better, best
[4] betra er: ‘bet[...] e[...]’ 696XV, því betra er 624
er ‘is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
[4] betra er: ‘bet[...] e[...]’ 696XV, því betra er 624
at ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
þegja ‘keep silent’
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þegja (verb): be silent
en ‘than’
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4. en (conj.): than
at ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
segja ‘say’
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segja (verb): say, tell
sem ‘what’
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sem (conj.): as, which
[6] sem lýðum reyniz: sem lýðum 723aˣ, ‘[...]zt kyind at lygi’ 696XV, er reyniz lýðum 401ˣ, sem síðan reyniz 624
notes
[6]: This l. might have been influenced by Sigrdr 25 (NK, 195): Alt er vant, | ef þú við þegir; | þá þiccir þú með bleyði borinn | eða sǫnno sagðr; | ... Annars dags | láttu hans ǫndo farit | oc launa svá lýðom lygi! ‘Everything is lost if you are silent in response; then you seem to be born a coward or else it is spoken truly; ... on another day let his spirit pass on and thus repay his lies in public’ (Larrington 1996, 170).
síðan ‘’
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síðan (adv.): later, then
lýðum ‘in public’
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lýðr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; -ir): one of the people
[6] sem lýðum reyniz: sem lýðum 723aˣ, ‘[...]zt kyind at lygi’ 696XV, er reyniz lýðum 401ˣ, sem síðan reyniz 624
notes
[6]: This l. might have been influenced by Sigrdr 25 (NK, 195): Alt er vant, | ef þú við þegir; | þá þiccir þú með bleyði borinn | eða sǫnno sagðr; | ... Annars dags | láttu hans ǫndo farit | oc launa svá lýðom lygi! ‘Everything is lost if you are silent in response; then you seem to be born a coward or else it is spoken truly; ... on another day let his spirit pass on and thus repay his lies in public’ (Larrington 1996, 170).
reyniz ‘proves’
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reyna (verb): test, try, experience
[6] sem lýðum reyniz: sem lýðum 723aˣ, ‘[...]zt kyind at lygi’ 696XV, er reyniz lýðum 401ˣ, sem síðan reyniz 624
notes
[6]: This l. might have been influenced by Sigrdr 25 (NK, 195): Alt er vant, | ef þú við þegir; | þá þiccir þú með bleyði borinn | eða sǫnno sagðr; | ... Annars dags | láttu hans ǫndo farit | oc launa svá lýðom lygi! ‘Everything is lost if you are silent in response; then you seem to be born a coward or else it is spoken truly; ... on another day let his spirit pass on and thus repay his lies in public’ (Larrington 1996, 170).
notes
[6]: This l. might have been influenced by Sigrdr 25 (NK, 195): Alt er vant, | ef þú við þegir; | þá þiccir þú með bleyði borinn | eða sǫnno sagðr; | ... Annars dags | láttu hans ǫndo farit | oc launa svá lýðom lygi! ‘Everything is lost if you are silent in response; then you seem to be born a coward or else it is spoken truly; ... on another day let his spirit pass on and thus repay his lies in public’ (Larrington 1996, 170).
lygi ‘be a lie’
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lygi (noun f.; °-; -ar/-ir(Hem544 43¹⁰n.)): lie
[6] at lygi: at lygi reyniz 723aˣ, ‘at [...]’ 401ˣ
notes
[6]: This l. might have been influenced by Sigrdr 25 (NK, 195): Alt er vant, | ef þú við þegir; | þá þiccir þú með bleyði borinn | eða sǫnno sagðr; | ... Annars dags | láttu hans ǫndo farit | oc launa svá lýðom lygi! ‘Everything is lost if you are silent in response; then you seem to be born a coward or else it is spoken truly; ... on another day let his spirit pass on and thus repay his lies in public’ (Larrington 1996, 170).
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Lat. parallel: (Dist. I, 12) Rumores fuge, ne incipias novus auctor haberi, / nam nulli tacuisse nocet, nocet esse locutum ‘Flee from rumours, and do not try to be taken as the recent author of them, for it does not harm anyone to be silent, [but] to have spoken may harm’.
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