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thongisation of é was most potent in that area. This systemic consider-
ation fits in with a seventeenth century observation, whose trustworthi-
ness has however been questioned, that é j> ie had begun in the north
(Björn Karel Þórólfsson 1925:XIV fn., Hreinn Benediktsson 1961-62:
96-97, 1977:42 fn. 1).
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