Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana - 01.06.1966, Síða 167
J. THE WISE AND THE FOOLISH
JO-199. ACQUISITION AND POSSESSION OF WISDOM (KNOWLEDGE)
J10. Wisdom (knowledge) acquired from experience.
J21. Counsels proved wise by experience. Cf. H588.10; P251.4. Gautr 39 ff., 63 ff.
ch. 9-10 (FAS III43 ff.); HjOlv 477-79, 515-16 ch. 10-11, 22; Kongab 12; Bragå
48 ch. 2. Cf. LiestølSF 36 and in Festschr. E. Mogk, 1924, 84 ff.
J21.2. »Do not act when angry«. Man returns home and sees someone sleeping with
his wife. Though he thinks it is a paramour, he restrains himself and finds that it
is a newborn son. Cf. K1612. Håkonar ch. 4 in FMS XI 429. Cf. Sveinsson in
FFC 83 xxiii-iv ad Aame 910.
J21.3. »Do not go where an old man has a young wife«. Cf. J445.2.
J21.17. »Stay at church till mass is finished«. Delay saves youth from death. Cf.
K1612. Håkonar t>. ch. 3 in FMS XI 429.
J21.52. Counsels proved wise by experience - miscellaneous. Håkonar ]?■ I. c. 428:
do not trust a short man with red beard! Cf. K1612; K2265.
J80. Wisdom (knowledge) taught by parable.
J130. Wisdom (knowledge) acquired from animals.
J133. Animal gives wise example to man. HaraldH ch. 58 in Hkr III 154: water for
thirsty men found by following burned snake.
JI50. Other means of acquiring wisdom (knowledge). Cf. Bl60.
J151. Wisdom from old person.
J151.3. Wisdom from god as old (one-eyed) man. Cf. A128.2; A185. Reg 19-25 =
Nornag 61-63 ch. 5 (Flb I 351-53, FAS I 325-27); Vols ch. 44 (42); OlåfTr ch.
64 in Hkr I 377-79 = ch. 197 in FMS II 138, by Odd ch. 43 (33).
J154. H7.se words of dying father. Cf. D1812.2.4; J155.5; T141.1. Sogubr 14 ch. 5
(FAS I 375); cf. Vols ch. 12.
J155. Wisdom (knowledge) from women. Cf. T453. Sigrdr p. 229-34 = Vols ch. 22
(21).
J155.1. Hero directed on journey by princess. Cf. G530.2. HjOlv 489 ch. 14; Ålafl
V 1-8.
J155.6. Wise words of dying woman (queen). SgF III 53 ff. = Vols ch. 33 (31): Bryn-
hildr; I>idr II 254-57: Erka.
J155.7. Knowledge from mysterious women met in the forest. Sorla 278 (FAS 1398-99);
tilfil ch. 4; Vilm ch. 8, 14, 19, 23; Saxo lib. III c. II 4 = Herrm 218 ff., 230.
J157. Wisdom (knowledge) from dream. Cf. D1810.8; D1812.3.3; Dl812.5.1.2;
D1813.1.6; E366; F564.3.3; F1068; N531. Ari’s Islendingabok in ASB I ch. IV
2-3; Njåla XXIII 9-10, LXII 5-6; Laxd ch. 48-49, 76; GislaS ch. 22, 24, 30, 33;
Hallfr ch. 9-11 (p. 94, 115, 121, 129); HrafnkelF ch. 1 = Ldb ch. 329; Fostbr
ch. 4, 23, 24; Grænl {). 277 ch. 2; Floam ch. 15, 20, 21; Ldb 36 n. (> OlåfTr ch.
128 in FMS I 254), 50 n„ 119 n.; OlåfH ch. 112, 188 in Hkr. II, ch. 107 in FMS
IV 243-44, ch. 178 in FMS V 38; Sighvats ji. skålds and borarins b- Nefjulfssonar
in FMS V 210, 319; OddOlåfTr ch. 13 (9), 27 (18); OlåfTr ch. 131 in FMS I 262
(= borvV in Fjlsl 485 and Kristni ch. II2-3), ch. 200, 219 in FMS II 147 (== Flb