Anon Hsv 99VII
Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 99’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 419.
Upp ‘’
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upp (adv.): up
at ‘to’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
hefja ‘start’
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hefja (verb): lift, start
samir ‘’
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2. sama (verb): befit
þér ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
eigi ‘not’
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3. eigi (adv.): not
vel ‘’
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vel (adv.): well, very
meiri ‘a bigger’
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meiri (adj. comp.; °meiran; superl. mestr): more, most
iðn ‘business’
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iðn (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): task
en ‘than’
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4. en (conj.): than
þú ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
megir ‘can manage’
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mega (verb): may, might
al ‘’
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al- ((prefix)): very < algerr (adj.): [complete]
[4] algers verks: algert verk dugir 624
gers ‘of a completed’
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gerr (adj.): [a completed] < algerr (adj.): [complete]
[4] algers verks: algert verk dugir 624
dugir ‘’
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duga (verb; °dugir; dugði; dugat): help, befit
þá ‘’
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2. þá (adv.): then
er ‘when’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
unnit ‘finished’
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2. vinna (verb): perform, work
er ‘is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
at ‘’
spyrr ‘find out’
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spyrja (verb; spurði): ask; hear, find out
lýðr ‘people’
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lýðr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; -ir): one of the people
at ‘about’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
lokum ‘the results’
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1. lok (noun n.; °-s; -): end
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Lat. parallel: (Dist. III, 14) Quod potes, id tempta: operis ne pondere pressus / succumbat labor, et frustra temptata relinquas ‘Whatever you can, try, lest under the weight of the burden of the task work collapses and you give up that tried in vain’. In 1199ˣ there is additional text which serves as a paraphrase for the st.: uppbyrja sæmir eigi iðju meiri en algert fáir ‘it is not fitting to undertake an activity greater than can be finished’.
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