Anon Hsv 70VII
Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 70’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 403.
Liðnar heiptir skaltu eigi lengi muna;
vertu í trygðum trúr;
sakir at sækja, þær er sættar eru,
þat kveða ódyggs manns eðli.
Skaltu eigi muna liðnar heiptir lengi; vertu trúr í trygðum; þat kveða eðli ódyggs manns at sækja sakir, þær er eru sættar.
You must not remember past wrath for long; be faithful to your plighted oath; it is said to be the nature of an unreliable man to pursue actions which have been settled.
Mss: 1199ˣ(73v)
Readings: [2] skaltu: skulu 1199ˣ
Editions: Skj AII, 183, Skj BII, 197, Skald II, 103, NN §8B; Hallgrímur Scheving 1831, 19, Gering 1907, 20, Tuvestrand 1977, 111, Hermann Pálsson 1985, 76-7.
Notes: [All]: Lat. parallel: (Dist. II, 15) Litis praeteritae noli maledicta referre: / post inimicitias iram meminisse malorum est ‘Do not allude to the curses of a past quarrel; it is bad to remember anger after hostilities’. — [2] skaltu ‘must’: 1199ˣ’s skulu might be the result of confusing liðnar heiptir as the subj. of the cl.
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 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.
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