Anon Hsv 86VII
Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 86’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 412.
gott ‘’
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góðr (adj.): good
skal ‘’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
kenna ‘teaching’
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kenna (verb): know, teach
skalt ‘must’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
[2] skalt þú öðrum gott: sá er vill grandvarr vera 624
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] skalt þú öðrum gott: sá er vill grandvarr vera 624
vill ‘’
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vilja (verb): want, intend
öðrum ‘to others’
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1. annarr (pron.; °f. ǫnnur, n. annat; pl. aðrir): (an)other, second
[2] skalt þú öðrum gott: sá er vill grandvarr vera 624
vera ‘’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
grandvarr ‘’
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grandvarr (adj.): circumspect, wary
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
kosta ‘’
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1. kostr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. -i/-; -ir, acc. -i/-u): choice, food, goods, good quality
nýtr ‘capable’
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nýtr (adj.; °compar. -ri, superl. nýztr/nýtastr): useful, able
[3] svá nýtr: kosta nýtt 624
af ‘’
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af (prep.): from
nema ‘learning’
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1. nema (verb): to take
mörgum ‘many’
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2. margr (adj.; °-an): many
dugir ‘helps’
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duga (verb; °dugir; dugði; dugat): help, befit
er ‘who’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
at ‘’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
mann ‘’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person < 1. mannvit (noun n.): understanding
viti ‘reason’
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1. vit (noun n.; °-s; -): wisdom, wit; visit < 1. mannvit (noun n.): understanding
kennir ‘’
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kenna (verb): know, teach
ráð ‘advice’
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ráð (noun n.; °-s; -): advice, plan, control, power
[6] veitir gott ráð: kennir gott 624
gumnum ‘’
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gumi (noun m.; °-a; gumar/gumnar): man
notes
[6] gum*um ‘people’: Cf. Note to st. 59/3.
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Hallgrímur Scheving includes ll. 1-3 with the same readings as here, but lacks ll. 4-6, which could be corrupt in 1199ˣ. 624 differs considerably, but is used by most eds (including Skj, Skald and Hermann Pálsson):
Gott skal kenna, sá er vill grandvarr vera,
ok kosta nýtt at nema;
mörgum dugir, sá er af mannviti
kennir gott gum*um.
Skal kenna gott ok kosta nýtt at nema, sá er vill vera grandvarr; dugir mörgum, sá er af mannviti kennir gum*um gott ‘He who wants to be prudent must teach something good and strive to learn something useful; he helps many, who teaches people something good from understanding’. — Lat. parallel: (Dist. III, 1) Instrue praeceptis animum, ne discere cessa; / nam sine doctrina vita est quasi mortis imago ‘Instruct your mind with precepts, nor cease to learn; for a life without learning is like the image of death’. This st. begins the main text of Book III, but there is no attempt to translate the preface to this book of the Disticha. — [1-3]: For these ll. there is a parallel in content in Sól 32.
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