Anon Hsv 8VII
Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 8’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 365.
Blíðmæltr vera skalt við bragna lið,
ok hirð þitt fengit fé;
minni ok mannvit nem þú á margan veg,
ok kenn þat síðan sonum.
Blíðmæltr skalt vera við lið bragna, ok hirð fengit fé þitt; nem þú á margan veg minni ok mannvit, ok kenn þat síðan sonum.
You must be affably spoken with a company of men, and take care of the money you have gained; learn in many a way memory and understanding, and teach it later to your sons.
Mss: 1199ˣ(72r), 696XV(1r), 624(140)
Readings: [1] vera: þú 624; skalt: so 624, skaltu 1199ˣ, 696XV [3] ok hirð: ‘h[...]’ 696XV, hirtu 624; þitt fengit: ‘[...]’ 696XV [4] ok: þat síða finnz 624 [5] nem: nema 624; margan veg: marga vega 696XV, 624 [6] ok kenn þat síðan sonum: ‘og kenn þad si[...]’ 696XV, kennir 624
Editions: Skj AII, 169, Skj BII, 187, Skald II, 97; Hallgrímur Scheving 1831, 8, Gering 1907, 2-3, Tuvestrand 1977, 74, Hermann Pálsson 1985, 29.
Notes: [All]: Lat. parallels: (sent. 29) blandus esto ‘be pleasant’; (sent. 13) rem tuam custodi ‘look after your property’; (sent. 27) quae legeris memento ‘remember what you read’; (sent. 28) liberos erudi ‘teach your children’.
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.
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