Anon Hsv 12VII
Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 12’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 367-8.
Bækr ok rúnir kenn þú blíðliga;
ger þú við góða vel;
illra kvenna firr þú þik öllu lagi,
ok ráð hverjum heilt.
Kenn þú blíðliga bækr ok rúnir; ger þú vel við góða; firr þú þik öllu lagi illra kvenna, ok ráð hverjum heilt.
Teach with kindness books and runes; treat the good well; keep away from bad women by all means, and give everybody good advice.
Mss: 1199ˣ(72r), 696XV(1r), 624(140)
Readings: [2] kenn: nem 696XV, 624; blíðliga: ‘blid[...]’ 696XV [3] ger þú við: ‘[...]’ 696XV; góða: góðan 696XV [4] illra: om. 624 [5] lagi: samlagi 696XV [6] ok ráð hverjum: ‘[...]’ 696XV
Editions: Skj AII, 170, Skj BII, 187, Skald II, 97; Hallgrímur Scheving 1831, 8, Gering 1907, 4, Tuvestrand 1977, 76, Hermann Pálsson 1985, 31.
Notes: [All]: Lat. parallels: (sent. 26) libros lege ‘read books’; (sent. 38) litteras disce ‘study literature’; (sent. 39) bono benefacito ‘do good to a good man’; (sent. 25) meretricem fuge ‘avoid a prostitute’; (sent 40) tute consule ‘give safe advice’. Two mss have nem ‘learn’ (l. 2) (so Skj B and Skald), and the Lat. parallels have more to do with learning than teaching. The importance of education is also mentioned in Sól 49. Hávm 118/3 parallels the illra kvenna of 1199ˣ (NK, 36). — [1] rúnir ‘runes’: The word is used widely as a metonymic expression for reading and writing, but in this context probably has a more specific meaning.
References
- Bibliography
- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- 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.
- NK = Neckel, Gustav and Hans Kuhn (1899), eds. 1983. Edda: Die Lieder des Codex Regius nebst verwandten Denkmälern. 2 vols. I: Text. 5th edn. Heidelberg: Winter.
- Hallgrímur Scheving, ed. 1831. Hugsvinnsmál, ásamt þeirra látinska frumriti. Skóla hátið. Viðeyar Klaustri: prentuð af Helga Helgasyni, á kostnað Bessastaða Skóla.
- Internal references
- Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 49’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 329-30.
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