Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 95’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 417.
Gott ráð nema skal gumna hverr,
þótt kenni þý eða þræll;
ánauðgan mann hygg ek opt vera
frjálsum fróðara.
Hverr gumna skal nema gott ráð, þótt þý eða þræll kenni; ek hygg ánauðgan mann opt vera fróðara frjálsum.
‘Every person must take good advice, even if a female or male slave teaches it; I think an enslaved man is often wiser than a free one.’
Lat. parallel: (Dist. III, 10) Utile consilium dominus ne despice servi; / nullius sensum, si prodest, tempseris unquam ‘As a master do not despise the useful counsel of your servant [or ‘slave’]; never spurn anyone’s advice, if it is useful’.
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.
Gott ráð nema
skal gumna hverr,
þótt kenni þý eða þræll;
óauðgan mann
hygg ek opt vera
frjálsum fróðara.
Gott räd nema skal ɢumna huór, þo kenne þý edur þræll [...] | Öaudugann mann higg eg opt vera friälsum frödara.
(VEÞ)
Gott ráð nema
skuli gumna hverr,
þótt ken þý eða þræll;
ánauðgan mann
hygg ek opt vera
frjálsum fróðara.
Gott rad nema skule gv | mna hverr þott ken þy eda þræll anavdgan mann hygg ek opt vera fria | lsvm frodara ·
(VEÞ)
Gott | räd nema skule gumna huer, þött kennj þij edur | þræll, þviat änaudgan mann higg eg offt vera, friäls | um frödara.
(VEÞ)
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], [C. E/5]. Hugsvinnsmál 96: AII, 187, BII, 201-2, Skald II, 105; Hallgrímur Scheving 1831, 24, Konráð Gíslason 1860, 552, Gering 1907, 26, Tuvestrand 1977, 124, Hermann Pálsson 1985, 94.
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