Anon Hsv 63VII
Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 63’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 399.
Ill ‘bad’
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illr (adj.): bad, evil, unwell
tíðendi ‘news’
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tíðendi (noun n.; °; -): news
er ‘’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
þú ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
[2] þótt þú einn vitir: þau er upp koma 624
upp ‘’
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upp (adv.): up
einn ‘alone’
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2. einn (pron.; °decl. cf. einn num.): one, alone
[2] þótt þú einn vitir: þau er upp koma 624
koma ‘’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
vættu ‘’
eigi ‘’
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3. eigi (adv.): not
þag ‘’
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þǫgn (noun f.; °þagnar): silence < þagmælskr (adj.)
[3] þagmælskr af þeim: eigi fyrstr með firum 624
fyrstr ‘’
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fyrstr (num. ordinal): first
mælskr ‘discreet’
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-mælskr (adj.): [discreet] < þagmælskr (adj.)
[3] þagmælskr af þeim: eigi fyrstr með firum 624
með ‘’
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með (prep.): with
firum ‘’
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firar (noun m.): men
þeim ‘it’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
[3] þagmælskr af þeim: eigi fyrstr með firum 624
þann ‘him’
[4] allir þann lasta: vertu þögnmælskr 624
þögnmælskr ‘’
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þagmælskr (adj.)
ef ‘if’
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3. ef (conj.): if
einn ‘alone’
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2. einn (pron.; °decl. cf. einn num.): one, alone
[5] einn geriz: allir lasta 624
flærðar ‘of falsehood’
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flærð (noun f.): falsehood, deceit
[6] flærðar frumkveðill: er einn geriz frumkveðill at 624
einn ‘’
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2. einn (pron.; °decl. cf. einn num.): one, alone
frum ‘the origin’
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frumr (adj.): supreme < frumkveðill (noun m.)
[6] flærðar frumkveðill: er einn geriz frumkveðill at 624
at ‘’
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4. at (conj.): that
geriz ‘’
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1. gera (verb): do, make
kveðill ‘ator’
[6] flærðar frumkveðill: er einn geriz frumkveðill at 624
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Lat. parallel: (Dist. II, 7) Quod pudeat, socios prudens celare memento, / ne plures culpent id, quod tibi displicet uni ‘Remember, prudent [as you are], to keep that which makes you ashamed from your associates, so that many will not blame that which displeases you alone’. 1199ˣ is closer to the Lat. text. 624 differs considerably:
Ill tíðindi, þau er upp koma,
vættu eigi fyrstr með firum;
vertu þögnmælskr, ef allir þau lasta,
er einn geriz frumkveðill at.
Vættu eigi fyrstr með firum ill tíðindi, þau er upp koma; vertu þögnmælskr, ef allir lasta þau, er einn geriz frumkveðill at ‘Do not expect as the first among men bad news which comes up; be discreet, if all blame those [i.e. the news] of which one man is the instigator’. There is an implication of causality between the two helmingar which is lacking in the Lat. distich.
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