"maður er manns gaman" meaning in Icelandic

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  "etymology_text": "Literally “person is person’s joy”. (Antonymic is the sentiment of the Latin expression homō hominī lupus (“man is a wolf to man”).) Compare Norwegian Nynorsk mann er manns gaman.\nThe proverb is from the forty-seventh verse of the Hávamál, one of the books of the Poetic Edda.\nthe 47th verse of the Hávamál\n* Hávamál verse 47 in Old Norse\n*: Ungr var ek forðum\n*: fór ek einn saman\n*: þá varð ek villr vega;\n*: auðigr þóttumk\n*: er ek annan fann\n*: maðr er manns gaman.\n* English translation by Benjamin Thorpe\n*: I was once young,\n*: I was journeying alone,\n*: and lost my way;\n*: rich I thought myself,\n*: when I met another.\n*: Man is the joy of man.\n* English translation by Henry A. Bellows\n*: Young was I once,\n*: and wandered alone,\n*: And nought of the road I knew;\n*: Rich did I feel\n*: when a comrade I found,\n*: for man is man's delight.\n* English translation by Olive Bray\n*: Young was I once,\n*: I walked alone,\n*: and bewildered seemed in the way;\n*: then I found me another\n*: and rich I thought me,\n*: for man is the joy of man.\n* English translation by W. H. Auden and P. B. Taylor\n*: Young and alone\n*: on a long road,\n*: Once I lost my way:\n*: Rich I felt\n*: when I found another;\n*: Man rejoices in man.",
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