Anon Hsv 92VII
Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 92’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 415-16.
text and translation
Höfugt erfiði ef þér at höndum kemr,
vertu glaðmæltr gumi;
fagnandi maðr neytir flest at vinna;
öll eru lostverk létt.
Ef höfugt erfiði kemr at höndum þér, vertu glaðmæltr gumi; fagnandi maðr neytir at vinna flest; öll lostverk eru létt.
‘If a difficult problem comes your way, be a cheerfully-speaking man; a joyful man manages to achieve most things; all labours of love are easy.’
notes and context
Lat. parallel: (Dist. III, 6) Interpone tuis interdum gaudia curis, / ut possis animo quemvis sufferre laborem ‘Intersperse your cares now and again with joy, that you may be able to bear in your mind any kind of hardship’.
sources
Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.
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Lbs 1199 4°x (1199x) — 74r/17 - 74r/18
imageshófugt Erfide ef þier ad hóndum kemur, vertu gladmælltur gume, | Fagnandi madur neiter flest ad vinna óll eru lost verk liett.
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editions and texts
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], [C. E/5]. Hugsvinnsmál 93: AII, 187, BII, 201, Skald II, 105; Hallgrímur Scheving 1831, 23, Gering 1907, 25, Tuvestrand 1977, 123, Hermann Pálsson 1985, 93.
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