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suMMARy
on the Verb Finnvitka in Flateyjarbók
Keywords: Finnvitka, vitka, sámi witchcraft, Flateyjarbók.
the article discusses the compound verb finnvitka, ‘to bewitch like a finn [or
sámi]’, that occurs once in old norse literature, in Flateyjarbók (1387–95). far-
reaching conclusions have been drawn about sámi witchcraft from this single
and relatively late occurrence of the verb. derived forms are found in more
recent Icelandic texts, but in its oldest form the word seems to survive only in
this one late-fourteenth-century instance. the author draws attention to the fact
that the text in which the verb appears also exists in later versions, preserved in
manuscripts from the seventeenth and the eigthteenth centuries, but there finnvitka
is replaced by picka, ‘pick’. the author argues that the word-form picka is either
the result of a misreading of finnvitka, where insular-v, ⟨ꝩ⟩, has been interpreted
by a later scribe as a ‘p’, and the grapheme ⟨ꞇ⟩ (a common form of ‘t’) has been
interpreted as a ‘c’; or it is a misreading of the corresponding simplex verb vitka,
‘practice witchcraft’, where the same arguments would apply. Insular-v was used
in Icelandic script from ca. 1200 until ca. 1300, and if this hypothesis is correct, we
would, on the one hand, have a fairly good argument for dating the oldest example