Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 37’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 383.
Öreign þína lát þér eigi gera
harðan hugtrega;
minztu þess, er þik móðir bar,
svát þér fylgdi eigi fé.
Lát eigi öreign þína gera þér harðan hugtrega; minztu þess, er þik móðir bar, svát þér fylgdi eigi fé.
Do not let your destitution cause you severe heartbreak; remember this, that your mother bore you [i.e. gave birth to you] in such a way that no money came with you.
Mss: 1199ˣ(72v), 723aˣ(79), 696XV(1v), 401ˣ(1r), 624(142)
Readings: [1] Öreign: öreigu 624 [2] lát: láttu 723aˣ, 696XV, 401ˣ, 624; þér eigi gera: aldri gera 723aˣ, eigi gera þér 401ˣ, þik eigi hryggvan 624 [3] harðan hugtrega: ‘hriggvann [...]’ 723aˣ, ‘he[...]’ 696XV, hrygt í hug 401ˣ, hryggvan gera 624 [4] minztu þess: þat þú minnz 723aˣ, þú þat minnz 696XV, ‘þess þ[...]’ 401ˣ, ‘hins þu minn[...]’ 624 [5] er: at 723aˣ [6] svát (‘so ad’): svá 723aˣ, 401ˣ, 624; eigi fé: ‘[...]’ 696XV
Editions: Skj AII, 176, Skj BII, 191, Skald II, 100; Hallgrímur Scheving 1831, 13, Konráð Gíslason 1860, 550, Gering 1907, 11, Tuvestrand 1977, 91, Hermann Pálsson 1985, 51.
Notes: [All]: Lat. parallel: (Dist. I, 21) Infantem nudum cum te natura crearit, / paupertatis onus patienter ferre memento ‘Since nature created you as a naked infant, remember to bear the burden of poverty patiently’. The ll. of the Lat. distich are rendered in reverse order in Hsv.
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