Anon Hsv 81VII
Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 81’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 409.
lítaz ‘look’
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líta (verb): look, see; appear
þarf ‘has to’
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2. þurfa (verb): need, be necessary
maðr ‘A man’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person
vegu ‘directions’
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1. vegr (noun m.; °-s/-ar, dat. -i/-; -ar/-ir, gen. -a/-na, acc. -a/-i/-u): way, path, side
[2] á alla vegu: alla vega 624
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
við ‘of’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
víti ‘’
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víti (noun n.; °-s; -): punishment
glögg ‘clear’
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gløggr (adj.; °-van; compar. -(v)ari/-ri, superl. -(v)astr/-str): clear < gløggþekkinn (adj.)
þekkinn ‘sighted’
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þekkinn (adj.): [sighted] < gløggþekkinn (adj.)
skyldi ‘should’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
gunna ‘’
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gunnr (noun f.): battle
notes
[5] gumna: As this is the second instance in 624 where gunna is used instead of gumna, it has to be supposed that the scribe did not know the poetic word.
hverr ‘every’
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2. hverr (pron.): who, whom, each, every
fróðr ‘wise’
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fróðr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): wise
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
for ‘fore’
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for- ((prefix)): exceedingly < forsjáll (adj.)
sjáll ‘sighted’
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-sjáll (adj.): [sighted] < forsjáll (adj.)
vera ‘be’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
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Lat. parallel: (Dist. II, 27) Quod sequitur specta quodque imminet ante, videto: / illum imitare deum, partem qui spectat utramque ‘Look at what has happened, and see that which is coming; imitate that god who looks in both directions [Janus]’. The Icel. text here does not reproduce the classical reference. Cf. also Hsv 98. In ON-Icel. poetry there are many parallels to the admonition in the first two ll. Cf. e.g. Hávm 1 (NK, 17): Gáttir allar, | áðr gangi fram, | um scoðaz scyli, | um scygnaz scyli; | þvíat óvíst er at vita, | hvar óvinir | sitia á fleti fyrir ‘All the entrances, before you walk forward, you should look at, you should spy out; for you can’t know for certain where enemies are sitting ahead in the hall’ (Larrington 1996, 14). There is also a parallel in phrasing in Sól 19. Cf. also the topic of Sól 40.
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