Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 60’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 397-8.
Einskis þræta skaltu óráðins hlutar
reiðr við rekka lið,
þvít reiðr maðr fylliz rangs hugar;
eigi hann satt um sér.
Skaltu reiðr þræta einskis óráðins hlutar við rekka lið, þvít reiðr maðr fylliz rangs hugar; hann um sér eigi satt.
[When you are] angry, you must not debate undecided things with a host of men, because an angry man is filled with a wrong mind; he does not see the truth.
Mss: 1199ˣ(73v), 624(143)
Readings: [1] þræta: hlutar 624 [2] skaltu óráðins hlutar: óráðins skaltu þinga 624 [3] reiðr: om. 624 [4] maðr: so 624, om. 1199ˣ [6] eigi hann satt um sér: má hann eigi satt um sjá 624
Editions: Skj AII, 181, Skj BII, 195-6, Skald II, 102; Hallgrímur Scheving 1831, 17, Gering 1907, 17, Tuvestrand 1977, 105, Hermann Pálsson 1985, 69.
Notes: [All]: Lat. parallel: (Dist. II, 4) Iratus de re incerta contendere noli, / impedit ira animum, ne possis cernere verum ‘Do not fight about something doubtful when you are angry; anger keeps the mind from being able to discern the truth’.
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