Anon Hsv 38VII
Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 38’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 383-4.
Aldr ‘’
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aldr (noun m.; °aldrs, dat. aldri; aldrar): life, age < aldrlag (noun n.): death
[1] Aldrlagi: ‘[...]’ 696XV
lagi ‘death’
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lag (noun n.; °-s; *-): layer; (pl.) law < aldrlag (noun n.): death
[1] Aldrlagi: ‘[...]’ 696XV
sínu ‘his’
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3. sinn (pron.; °f. sín, n. sitt): (refl. poss. pron.)
maðr ‘body’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person
né ‘or’
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né (conj.): nor
um ‘about’
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1. um (prep.): about, around
önn ‘fear’
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1. ǫnn (noun f.): concern, worry
ali ‘nourish’
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ala (verb; °elr; ól, ólu; alinn): to beget, produce, procreate
dugir ‘enough’
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duga (verb; °dugir; dugði; dugat): help, befit
eigi ‘not’
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3. eigi (adv.): not
dægr ‘a day and night’
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dœgr (noun n.; °-s; -): day and night; 24h period
þeim ‘for him’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
[5] þeim er dauða: ‘[...]’ 696XV
óaz ‘’
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óa (verb): fear, be afraid at
kvíðir ‘’
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3. kvíða (verb): fear
forðaz ‘wants to avoid’
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forða (verb): escape, avoid
[5] forðaz: so 624, kvíðir 1199ˣ, kvíða 723aˣ, ‘[...]’ 696XV, óaz 401ˣ
hvergi ‘’
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2. hvergi (pron.): not, nowhere, neither
enginn ‘no one’
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2. engi (pron.): no, none
[6] enginn: ‘[...]ygi’ 696XV, ‘ei[...]’ 401ˣ, hvergi 624
feigð ‘a fated death’
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feigð (noun f.): death
[6] feigð: hann feigð 696XV, 624, ‘[...]’ 401ˣ
um ‘’
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2. um (particle): (particle)
flýr ‘escapes’
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flýja (verb): to flee, take flight
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Lat. parallel: (Dist. I, 22) Ne timeas illam, quae vitae est ultima finis: / qui mortem metuit, quod vivit, perdit id ipsum ‘Do not fear that which is the final end of life: whoever fears death while he is alive, loses life itself’. 624 has only ll. 4-6. As the two helmingar in 1199ˣ each render more or less the sense of the Lat. distich, ll. 1-3 in the second version mss may not be original. Unavoidable death has already been mentioned in Hsv 35. Lines 4-5 may also mean ‘a day and a night has no value for the one who wants to avoid death’, i.e. people waste their time fearing death. This seems to be the sense of the Lat.
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