Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 84’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 411.
Dagráðs leita þarf eigi til dugnaðar,
sá er vill heilindi hafa;
stundir eigi ráða, þótt komi stríð um her;
allar eru tíðir trúar.
Sá er vill hafa heilindi, þarf eigi leita dagráðs til dugnaðar; stundir ráða eigi, þótt stríð komi um her; allar tíðir eru trúar.
He who wants to have good health need not look for a convenient time for aid; hours do not determine whether strife spreads among the population; all times are appropriate.
Mss: 1199ˣ(74r)
Editions: Skj AII, 185, Skj BII, 200, Skald II, 104; Hallgrímur Scheving 1831, 21, Gering 1907, 23, Tuvestrand 1977, 119, Hermann Pálsson 1985, 87.
Notes: [All]: Lat. parallel: (Dist. II, 30) Sit tibi praecipue, quod primum est, cura salutis: / tempore ne culpes, cum sit tibi causa doloris ‘Let your health, which is foremost, be your main concern, nor blame the occasion, when you yourself are the cause of pain’. — [5] um her ‘among the population’: Skj B takes Hallgrímur Scheving’s text, þótt komi stríð eða hel ‘if strife or death may come’.
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