Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 5’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 363-4.
Hreinlífr þú vert, ok hræztu þinn læriföður;
halt þú heiðsæi.
Vert þú hreinlífr, ok hræztu læriföður þinn; halt þú heiðsæi.
Be pure of life and fear your teacher; preserve your reverence.
Mss: 1199ˣ(73v), 624(140)
Readings: [2] ok: om. 624; hræztu: so 624, hræðaz 1199ˣ [3] heiðsæi: so 624, eiðsæri 1199ˣ
Editions: Skj AII, 168, Skj BII, 186, Skald II, 97, NN §3266B Anm.; Gering 1907, 2, Tuvestrand 1977, 73, Hermann Pálsson 1985, 27.
Notes: [All]: Lat. parallels: (sent. 8) mundus esto ‘keep neat’; (sent. 11) magistratum metue ‘fear a magistrate’; (sent. 12) verecundiam serva ‘preserve modesty’. This st. occurs after st. 65 in 1199ˣ, very much out of the order of the disticha. — [3] heiðsæi ‘reverence’: 1199ˣ’s eiðsæri ‘oath-swearing’ does not provide alliteration and is further from the Lat. verecundiam ‘modesty’.
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