Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 33’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 380-1.
Einmæli manna ræk þú aldrigi;
þarftu eigi til þess at hlera;
um sik ræða ætla seggja hverr,
hinn er veit á sik sakir.
Ræk þú aldrigi einmæli manna; þarftu eigi at hlera til þess; hverr seggja, hinn er veit sakir á sik, ætla ræða um sik.
Never pay attention to men’s private conversation; you do not need to listen to it; every man who knows he is guilty thinks [people] are talking about him.
Mss: 1199ˣ(72v), 723aˣ(78), 696XV(1v), 401ˣ(1r), 624(142)
Readings: [1] Einmæli: ‘ein[...]’ 696XV, um einmæli 624; manna: mann 723aˣ, ‘[...]’ 696XV [2] ræk þú aldrigi: om. 624 [3] þarftu eigi til þess: tak þú til 401ˣ, hirtu aldrigi 624; hlera: hlæja 401ˣ [4] um: so 723aˣ, 696XV, 401ˣ, 624, um sjálfan 1199ˣ [4, 5] ræða ætla seggja hverr: so 723aˣ, 401ˣ, ætla ræða seggja hverr 1199ˣ, ‘ræ[...] huer’ 696XV, seggja hvern ræða ætla 624 [6] hinn: ‘[...]’ 723aˣ, sá 696XV, om. 624; er: sem 723aˣ; sik: baki sér 624
Editions: Skj AII, 175, Skj BII, 191, Skald II, 99, NN §3166; Hallgrímur Scheving 1831, 12, Gering 1907, 10, Tuvestrand 1977, 89, Hermann Pálsson 1985, 47.
Notes: [All]: Lat. parallel: (Dist. I, 17) Ne cures, si quis tacito sermone loquatur: / conscius ipse sibi de se putat omnia dici ‘Do not pay any attention if someone talks behind your back [lit. with silent speech]; the guilty man thinks everything is said about him’. Both versions render the Lat. text equally well, but 401ˣ and 1199ˣ correspond better to the rules of ljóðaháttr. 624 is metrically deficient in the first two ll. — [6]: The last l. corresponds to Hsv 102/3.
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