Anon Sól 8VII
Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 8’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 300-1.
Auði né heilsu ræðr enginn maðr,
þótt honum gangi greitt;
margan þat sækir, er minst of varir;
enginn ræðr sættum sjálfr.
Enginn maðr ræðr auði né heilsu, þótt honum gangi greitt; þat sækir margan, er minst of varir; enginn ræðr sjálfr sættum.
No man has control over riches or health, though it may go smoothly for him; what he least expects comes upon many a man; no one can set his own terms.
Mss: 166bˣ(45v), papp15ˣ(1v), 738ˣ(80r), 167b 6ˣ(1v), 214ˣ(149r), 1441ˣ(581), 10575ˣ(2r), 2797ˣ(231)
Readings: [1] Auði: auð papp15ˣ, 10575ˣ, 2797ˣ; heilsu: ‘[...]lsu’ 738ˣ [3] honum: so papp15ˣ, 738ˣ, 167b 6ˣ, 1441ˣ, 10575ˣ, 2797ˣ, hann 166bˣ [4] sækir: hendir 10575ˣ [5] er: om. papp15ˣ; varir: varar papp15ˣ, 1441ˣ [6] ræðr: ‘r[...]’ 10575ˣ; sættum: sættum corrected from ‘sättum’ 738ˣ
Editions: Skj AI, 629, Skj BI, 636, Skald I, 309, NN §2146; Bugge 1867, 358, Falk 1914, 4, Björn M. Ólsen 1915, 8, Fidjestøl 1979, 61, Njörður Njarðvík 1991, 47, Njörður Njarðvík 1993, 14, 94.
Notes: [All]: The thought of sts 8-9 is paralleled in Hávm 78, which tells of the misfortune of Fitjungr’s sons. — [1-2] auði né heilsu ræðr enginn maðr ‘no man has control over riches or health’: cf. Hsv 35/4-5 aldrlagi sínu ræðr engi maðr ‘No man has power over his life-span’, and Hsv 112 which also couples concepts of riches and health. — [3] honum ‘for him’: hann ‘he’ is the reading of 166bˣ and 20 other mss. Papp15ˣ, 738ˣ, and the great majority (49) of mss have honum ‘for him’ here, giving an impersonal cl. ‘though it may go smoothly for him’.
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Fidjestøl, Bjarne, ed. 1979a. Sólarljóð: Tydning og Tolkningsgrunnlag. Nordisk Instituts skrifteserie 4. Bergen, Oslo and Tromsø: Universitetsforlaget.
- Björn Magnússon Ólsen, ed. 1915a. Sólarljóð: gefin út með skíringum og athugasemdum. Safn til sögu Íslands og íslenzkra bókmenta 5.1. Reykjavík: Prentsmiðja Gutenberg.
- Bugge, Sophus, ed. 1867. Norrœn fornkvæði. Islandsk samling af folkelige oldtidsdigte om nordens guder og heroer. Almindelig kaldet Sæmundar Edda hins frøda. Christiania (Oslo): Malling. Rpt. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget 1965.
- Falk, Hjalmar, ed. 1914a. Sólarljóð. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter II. Hist.-filos. kl. 7. 2 vols. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
- Njörður P. Njarðvik, ed. 1991. Sólarljóð. Útgáfa og umfjöllun. Íslensk Rit 10. Reykjavík: Bókmenntafræðistofnun Háskóla Íslands og Menningarsjóður.
- Njörður P. Njarðvik. 1993. Solsången. Akademisk avhandling för filosofiedoktorsexamen i nordiska språk. Göteborgs universitet: Institutionen för svensk språket.
- Internal references
- Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 112’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 427.
- Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 35’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 382.
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