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 áleitni ræk þú aldrigi,
ef þú lastvarr lifir;
eigi er auðgætt, þat er öllum líki;
ger þú, svát góðr lofi.
Ræk þú aldrigi illa áleitni, ef þú lifir lastvarr; eigi er auðgætt, þat er öllum líki; ger þú, svát góðr lofi.
Never worry about evil rebuke if you live as a virtuous person; it is not easy [to do] what pleases everyone; behave in such a way that a good person praises [you].
Mss: 1199ˣ(74r)
Editions: Skj AII, 186, Skj BII, 201, Skald II, 105; Hallgrímur Scheving 1831, 22, Gering 1907, 24, Tuvestrand 1977, 121, Hermann Pálsson 1985, 91.
Notes: [All]: 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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