Anon Hsv 91VII
Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 91’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 415.
Eigi skaltu lataz, ef þú vilt líf hafa,
þat er drengmanni dugir;
því fleira lýtir, sem færra nennir
gott at vinna gumi.
Skaltu eigi lataz, ef þú vilt hafa líf, þat er dugir drengmanni; því fleira lýtir, sem gumi nennir færra gott at vinna.
You must not be lazy if you want to have a life which suits a good man; a man will blame the more, as he is inclined to do less [that is] good.
Mss: 1199ˣ(74r), 624(145)
Readings: [1] Eigi skaltu: skal eigi sá 624; lataz: latr 624 [2] ef þú vilt: er vill eigi 624 [4] lýtir: fýsir 624 [5] sem færra nennir: er fleira nemr 624 [6] vinna gumi: vilja 624
Editions: Skj AII, 186, Skj BII, 201, Skald II, 105; Hallgrímur Scheving 1831, 23, Gering 1907, 25, Tuvestrand 1977, 122, Hermann Pálsson 1985, 92.
Notes: [All]: Lat. parallel: (Dist. III, 5) Segnitiem fugito, quae vitae ignavia fertur; / nam cum animus languet, consumit inertia corpus ‘Avoid sluggishness, which means laziness of life; for when the mind is weary, inertia consumes the body’. — [4-6]: 624 reads quite differently: því fleira fýsir, | er fleira nemr, | gott at vilja ‘he who learns more is urged to want [to do] all the more good’. The last l. is hypometrical and lacks alliteration.
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Tuvestrand, Birgitta, ed. 1977. Hugsvinnsmál: Handskrifter och kritisk text. Lundastudier i nordisk språkvetenskap A:29. Lund: Blom.
- Hermann Pálsson, ed. 1985a. Áhrif Hugsvinnsmála á aðrar fornbókmenntir. Studia Islandica/Íslensk Fræði 43. Reykjavík: Menningarsjóður.
- Gering, Hugo, ed. 1907. Hugsvinnsmál. Eine altisländische Übersetzung der Disticha Catonis. Kiel: Lipsius & Tischer.
- Hallgrímur Scheving, ed. 1831. Hugsvinnsmál, ásamt þeirra látinska frumriti. Skóla hátið. Viðeyar Klaustri: prentuð af Helga Helgasyni, á kostnað Bessastaða Skóla.
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