Anon Hsv 126VII
Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 126’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 435-6.
Örlög sín viti engi fyrir
né um þat önn ali;
flestir þat vita, at mun flærðvörum
dauði ok líf duga.
Engi viti örlög sín fyrir né ali önn um þat; flestir vita þat, at dauði ok líf mun duga flærðvörum.
Let no-one know his destiny beforehand, nor show concern about it; most know that death and life will help the deceit-wary.
Mss: 1199ˣ(75r), 723aˣ(84), 624(146)
Readings: [2] viti: veit 723aˣ, skyldi 624; fyrir: maðr fyrir 723aˣ, maðr 624 [3] önn ali: veit neitt tala 624 [4] flestir þat vita: hitt vita flestir 624 [5] mun: mun eigi 624; ‑vörum: ‘v[...]vdvm’ 624
Editions: Skj AII, 193, Skj BII, 206, Skald II, 108, NN §21B; Hallgrímur Scheving 1831, 29, Gering 1907, 34, Tuvestrand 1977, 140, Hermann Pálsson 1985, 116.
Notes: [All]: Lat. parallel: (Dist. IV, 22) Multum venturi ne cures tempora fati: / non metuit mortem, qui scit contemnere vitam ‘Do not worry much about the times of fate which will come; he does not fear death who knows how to spurn life’. — [1-3]: These ll. are close in content to Hávm 56/4-6.
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.
- 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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