Anon Sól 26^VII

Reiðiverk,        þau er þú unnit hefr,
        bæt þú eigi illu yfir;
grættan gæla        skaltu með góðum hlutum;
        þat kveða sálu sama.

Reiðiverk, þau er þú hefr unnit, bæt þú eigi illu yfir; skaltu gæla grættan með góðum hlutum; þat kveða sama sálu.

The angry deeds that you have committed, do not compensate for them with wickedness; you must comfort the weeping one with good things; they say that befits the soul.

Mss: 166bˣ(46v), papp15ˣ(3r-v), 738ˣ(81r), 167b 6ˣ(2v) (l. 1), 214ˣ(150r), 1441ˣ(583), 10575ˣ(4v), 2797ˣ(233)

Readings: [2-6] om. 167b 6ˣ    [2] þú: er 1441ˣ    [3] þú: om. 10575ˣ, 2797ˣ    [4] gæla: gala 166bˣ, 738ˣ, 214ˣ, 1441ˣ, 10575ˣ, 2797ˣ, hala papp15ˣ    [5] skaltu: skalt 10575ˣ    [6] þat kveða sálu sama: á vinna aptr 1441ˣ;    kveða: so 2797ˣ, om. 166bˣ, papp15ˣ, 214ˣ, 10575ˣ, er 738ˣ

Editions: Skj AI, 632, Skj BI, 639, Skald I, 311, NN §2147C; Bugge 1867, 361, Falk 1914, 13, Björn M. Ólsen 1915, 11, Fidjestøl 1979, 63, Njörður Njarðvík 1991, 62, Njörður Njarðvík 1993, 32, 109.

Notes: [1-2]: Most eds, following Bugge, regularise ll. 1-2 by adding ‘er’ to l. 2, and combining it with þau (l. 1) in order to regularise the syntax. However, ll. 1-2 lack alliteration. — [2-6]: These ll. are omitted in 167b 6ˣ, as are all succeeding sts up to and including 55. — [3] bæt þú eigi illu yfir ‘do not compensate for them with wickedness’: Cf. Hsv 87. — [4] gæla ‘to comfort, soothe’: Bugge’s emendation. Gala ‘to chant’ is preferred by most of the main mss to papp15ˣ’s hala, possibly related to halda ‘to hold, maintain’. Neither of these variants makes sense in context. — [6] kveða ‘they [people] say’: The reading (or possibly the emendation) of 2797ˣ, adopted by 4 related later mss (1692ˣ, 2298ˣ, IBR36ˣ and 1458ˣ). It is likely that the majority of mss have omitted a verb here. This reading has been adopted by all subsequent eds.

References

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10. Internal references
11. Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 87’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 413.