Anon Hsv 41VII
Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 41’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 385-6.
text and translation
Sinni optar heittu eigi seggjum gjöf,
þeirri er þú veita vilt;
símálugs orð þykkja snotrum hal
vindi lík vera.
Heittu eigi sinni optar seggjum gjöf, þeirri er þú vilt veita; snotrum hal þykkja símálugs orð vera lík vindi.
‘Do not promise people more than once the gift that you intend to give; to a wise man the words of a long-winded man seem like the wind.’
notes and context
Lat. parallel: (Dist. I, 25) Quod praestare potes, ne bis promiseris ulli, / ne sis ventosus, dum vis bonus esse videris ‘That which you are able to lend do not promise twice to anyone, do not be a windbag if you want to seem to be a good man’. This st. is parallelled in Hsv 29. — [1-3]: The first version (i.e. 624) only consists of these ll., but has a similar text to ll. 4-6 in its version of st. 29/4-6. The ll. here also read somewhat differently from the other mss: Sinni optar | skaltu eigi heita gjöf | þeirri er þú at öðrum átt ‘You must not promise more than once a gift which you have due from others’.
readings
- [2] heittu eigi seggjum: heit eigi sömu 723aˣ, skaltu eigi heita 624
- [3] þeirri er: ef 723aˣ
- [3] veita vilt: at öðrum átt 624
- [4] símálugs: ‘[...]r’ 696XV
- [5] þykkja: þykkir 401ˣ
sources
Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.
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Lbs 1199 4°x (1199x) — 73r/3 - 73r/5
imagesSinne optar heit | þu eie seggium gióf, þeire er þu veita villt. Sijmälugs ord þikia snotrum | hal Vindi lijk vera.
(VEÞ)
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AM 723 a 4°x (723ax) — 79/21 - 79/22
imagesSinni optar
heit eigi sömu gjöf,
ef þú veita vilt;
símálugs orð
þykkja snotrum hal
vindi lík vera.Sinne oftar heit ei sømu gióf ef þu veita villt, sima|lugs ord þkia snotrum hal, vinde lı̈k vera,
(TW)
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AM 696 XV 4° (696XV) — 1v/22 - 1v/23 [2-6]
imagesSinni optar
heittu eigi seggjum gjöf,
þeirri er þú veita vilt;
†[...]r† orð
þykkja snotrum hal
vindi lík vera.[...]heit þu eigi seíggium giof þeirí er þu ueita uillt | [...]r ord þikia snotrum hal uindí lik uerra
(VEÞ)
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JS 401 4°x (401x) — 1v/2 - 1v/3
Sinni optar
heittu eigi seggjum gjöf,
þeirri er þú veita vilt;
símálugs orð
þykkir snotrum hal
vindi lík vera.Sinne optar heittv ei seggivm giof þeire er þv veita villt sim | alvgz ord þicker snotrvm hal vindi lik vera:
(VEÞ)
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AM 624 4° (624) — 142/20 - 142/20 [1-3]
imagesSinni optar
skaltu eigi heita gjöf,
þeirri er þú at öðrum átt ;
símálugs orð
þykkja snotrum hal
vindi lík vera.sínne optar skaltv eigi heita giof þeiri er þu at avdrvm att
(VEÞ)
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AM 148 8vox (148x) — 71r/14 - 71r/15 [1-3]
Sinne offtar skaltu ei heita gióf þeire, | er þu at ódrum ätt,
(VEÞ)
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BLAdd 4873 — 20r - 20r [4-6]
simalugs mān̄n̄z ord þīc̄er snortrum̄ hal vindi lik ūēra.
(TW)
editions and texts
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], [C. E/5]. Hugsvinnsmál 41: AII, 177, BII, 192, Skald II, 100; Hallgrímur Scheving 1831, 14, Gering 1907, 12, Tuvestrand 1977, 93, Hermann Pálsson 1985, 54.
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