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short e by being written ie (liet lrlO, fiell 2r22, lieonenu 2r29,
while long å is written sa (lr26) in only one case. The unstressed
back vowel is represented only by u (uom lr25), while i occurs
slightly more frequently than e as the unstressed front vowel
(hefi lvl, hefe lrll; ecki 2v2, eige lv22). The ending -ligr is twice
written out: -lig 2vl3-14, 18. As in N (lr4,3b-5), O writes y for
older i in myskunar lr20. Confusion of i and i) occurs in tynnde 2vl3.
The svarabhakti vowel is written out in skrafinur lv4, siuk domur
lvl4, reidur 2v5, etc., represented by the superscript 2 in prestwrin
lrl7, ulfwrin 2r28, 2vl0, and not indicated in ydr 2vl7. The form
pinur (pi. of pina) lv8, 2r5 occurs wrongly archaized as pinr lv20
at the end of a line which would be too long if it ended in -ur.
Old Icelandic t is normally preserved and written out in endings:
dreigit lr2, buit lr5, })olat 2vl9 and in at 2v2, 13, 17, J>at 2r2, 2v24.
The older ending -i5, -u5 in the 2nd pers. piur. has been replaced
by -it, -ut in [sei]git lr7-8 and in erwut (= erut) 2r30, but not
in uitid lr7, which evidently follows the well known scribal pattern
that d is used after t in the preceding syllable.4 Gemination of a
preceding 1 is always occasioned by d, whether it be from Old
Norse d (uillde lr25, helldur 2rl4) or from Old Norse 5 (Jjollde lvl2,
dualldiz lv26-27). Medial forms end in -z in two examples: hræddiz
lv8, dualldiz lv26-27; otherwise -zt, e.g. syndizt lv28.
The following forms in O should be noted:
modur (nom.) Iv28, but moder lv25, 2rl5.
saurlifs (gen.) Ir3.
himnkis (gen.) 2rl6, himrike (dat.) 2rl9 for himinrik-.
kuinu (gen.) Irl8, (dat.) 2rl2, but konur lr4.
likam (acc.) 2v27.
kuikunde (= kuikendi) 2r25-26.
kiurkiune (= kirkjunni) lv27.
hafum (dat. pi. of hår) 2r25.
ens (gen. sg. nt. of the def. art.) lrll.
yd uar (gen. of J)ér) 2v21.
giordar (wk. part. replacing gprr) lr 19.
so lr5, etc. for suo, but (S)wo 2r21.
4 Jon Helgason, MdliO å Nijja Testamenti Odds Gottskdllcssonar, in Safn Frceda-
fjelagsins um Island og tslendinga, VII (Kaupmannahofn, 1929), p. 31.