Anon Hsv 40VII
Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 40’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 385.
Aura afla skaltu á alla vegu,
sem drengmanni dugir;
aura þinna skaltu eigi til ónýts hafa,
þótt þú þik vel auðgan vitir.
Skaltu afla aura á alla vegu, sem drengmanni dugir; skaltu eigi hafa aura þinna til ónýts, þótt þú vitir þik vel auðgan.
You must acquire money in all ways which befit an independent man; you must not use your money for something useless, although you know yourself [to be] very wealthy.
Mss: 1199ˣ(73r), 723aˣ(79), 696XV(1v), 401ˣ(1v), 624(142)
Readings: [1] Aura: auðs 723aˣ, auðar 624 [2] skaltu: ‘skalt[...]’ 624; á alla vegu: á marga vega 696XV, þeim 401ˣ, alla veg 624 [3] sem: svá sem 696XV, er 401ˣ; drengmanni dugir: ‘dreing[...]’ 696XV, ‘dreingmenne dug[...]’ 401ˣ [4] aura þinna: ‘[...]’ 696XV [5] skaltu: skalt 723aˣ, ‘[...]’ 696XV [6] þótt þú: þó 723aˣ, þóttu 696XV, þótt 401ˣ; vel: ‘[...]’ 624; auðgan: ‘[...]gdan’ 401ˣ; vitir: ‘[...]’ 696XV
Editions: Skj AII, 177, Skj BII, 192, Skald II, 100; Hallgrímur Scheving 1831, 13, Gering 1907, 12, Tuvestrand 1977, 93, Hermann Pálsson 1985, 54.
Notes: [All]: Lat. parallel: (Dist. I, 24) Ne tibi quid desit, quaesitis utere parce, / utque quod est serves, semper deesse putato ‘So that you will not be lacking anything, keep from using up what you have gained, and, so that you may keep what you have, always pretend to be without it’. The phrasing is paralleled in Hsv 57.
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 57’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 395-6.
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