Anon Hsv 89VII
Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 89’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 414.
Illa ‘evil’
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illr (adj.): bad, evil, unwell
áleitni ‘rebuke’
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áleita (verb; °-að-): [rebuke]
ræk ‘worry’
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2. reka (verb): drive, force
þú ‘’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
aldrigi ‘Never’
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aldrigi (adv.): never
ef ‘if’
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3. ef (conj.): if
þú ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
last ‘’
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last (noun n.; °-): fault, sin, vice < lastvarr (adj.): faultless
varr ‘as a virtuous person’
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2. varr (adj.): wary < lastvarr (adj.): faultless
lifir ‘live’
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lifa (verb): live
eigi ‘not’
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3. eigi (adv.): not
er ‘is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
er ‘what’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
öllum ‘everyone’
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allr (adj.): all
líki ‘pleases’
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4. líka (verb): please
ger ‘behave’
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1. gera (verb): do, make
þú ‘’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
svá ‘in such a way’
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svá (adv.): so, thus
t ‘that’
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4. at (conj.): that
góðr ‘a good person’
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góðr (adj.): good
lofi ‘praises’
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lofa (verb): praise, permit
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Lat. parallel: (Dist. III, 2) Cum recte vivas, ne cures verba malorum, / arbitri non est nostri, quid quisque loquatur ‘If you live rightly, do not worry about the words of bad people; it is not in our power to decide what each person says’.
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