Anon Hsv 110VII
Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 110’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 425-6.
Aumr maðr telr sér einskis vant,
ef sér atvinnu á,
en inn fégjarni sýtir, þótt fullsælu hafi,
ok þykkiz válaðr vera.
Aumr maðr telr sér einskis vant, ef á sér atvinnu, en inn fégjarni sýtir, þótt hafi fullsælu, ok þykkiz vera válaðr.
A poor man thinks he lacks nothing if he has means of subsistence for himself, but the avaricious person complains even if he has great wealth, and thinks he is poverty-stricken.
Mss: 1199ˣ(74v), 723aˣ(81), 624(146)
Readings: [1] Aumr: angrlauss 624 [2-3] so 723aˣ, 624, ef sér atvinnu á telr sér einskis vant 1199ˣ [3] sér: hann 624; á: fær 723aˣ [4] en: om. 723aˣ; inn fégjarni: so 624, ágjarn 1199ˣ, 723aˣ [5] þótt: þótt hann 624 [6] þykkiz: þykkiz æ 723aˣ
Editions: Skj AII, 189, Skj BII, 204, Skald II, 106; Hallgrímur Scheving 1831, 27, Gering 1907, 30, Tuvestrand 1977, 132, Hermann Pálsson 1985, 105.
Notes: [All]: Lat. parallels: (Dist. IV, 4) Dilige denarium, sed parce dilige formam. / quam nemo sanctus nec honestus captat habere ‘Love money, but love its appearance sparingly, which no one good and honest seeks to gain’; (Dist. IV, 16) Utere quaesitis opibus, fuge nomen avari; / quid tibi divitias, si semper pauper abundas ‘Make use of riches you have gained, avoid the name of miser; what use are riches to you, if you always live like a poor man?’. — [2-3]: These ll. are reversed in 1199ˣ, which produces an unmetrical reading. — [4] inn fégjarni ‘the avaricious person’: 624’s reading is preferred here to produce the correct alliteration.
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Tuvestrand, Birgitta, ed. 1977. Hugsvinnsmál: Handskrifter och kritisk text. Lundastudier i nordisk språkvetenskap A:29. Lund: Blom.
- Hermann Pálsson, ed. 1985a. Áhrif Hugsvinnsmála á aðrar fornbókmenntir. Studia Islandica/Íslensk Fræði 43. Reykjavík: Menningarsjóður.
- Gering, Hugo, ed. 1907. Hugsvinnsmál. Eine altisländische Übersetzung der Disticha Catonis. Kiel: Lipsius & Tischer.
- Hallgrímur Scheving, ed. 1831. Hugsvinnsmál, ásamt þeirra látinska frumriti. Skóla hátið. Viðeyar Klaustri: prentuð af Helga Helgasyni, á kostnað Bessastaða Skóla.
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