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Andrea de Leeuw van Weenen
around 1200, the middle of the 13th century (represented by the
Konungsbók text of Grágás in the edition by Vilhjálmur Finsen 1852),
the end of the 13th century (represented by the AM 519 a 4° manu-
script of Alexanders saga in the edition by Finnur Jónsson 1925) and
the 16th century (represented by Odd Gottskálksson’s New Testament
and the Guðbrands Bible). The language of the latter two texts has
been described by Jón Helgason (1929) and Bandle (1956).
1. The oldest stage
For the oldest documented stage of the pronoun Hreinn Benediktsson
uses the material collected in Larsson’s Ordförrádet with the excep-
tion of the forms in AM 645,2 and augments it with the forms found
in AM 677 4° B (Sermons and Dialogues of Gregory the Great) and
forms found in early poetry. For this stage he gives 3 paradigms for
the pronoun nokkurr (nekkverr, nekkerr, and nakkvarr) and 3 for the
pronoun nokkuð (nakkvat, nekkvat, nokkvat/nökkvat). Not shown in
his paradigm table for nokkurr, but mentioned in the text are some
mixed forms (nekkvarr/nakkverr) and some forms with ‘o’ and ‘0’.
The distribution of the various nokkurr paradigms in the oldest
manuscripts is shown in tables 1 and 2:3
Table 1: Distribution of the main paradigms in the oldest manuscripts
according to Hreinn Benediktsson, ordered by paradigm.
nekkverr S E G R H
nekkerr S
nakkvarr P S G
2 Hreinn Benediktsson does not say why he left out the material from AM 645 4°
A, but I presume that he considered this manuscript to be somewhat younger than the
others in Ordförrádet, as he gives it as number 27 in his Early Icelandic Script. He
uses the forms from AM 645 further on in his article (1961-62:22).
3 The sigla are those employed by Hreinn Benediktsson: S = Sthm 15 4° (the
Icelandic Homily Book, formerly often called the Stockholm Homily Book), H = AM
237a fol. (a fragment of a homily), E = AM 674a 4° (Elucidarius), R = GkS 1812 4°
IV (rímtal etc.), P = AM 673a 4° (Physiologus), G = AM 677 4° B (Sermons and
Dialogues of Gregory the Great).