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I have found no exeeptions, but Hånd 2 has oc (llra44, llrb4), Oc (5rb27),
(against ok at 7va8,34, and the abbreviation in all other cases), and in
Hånd 3 oc is usual. Hånd 2 has no c spellings in other words, but Hånd 3
also shows interlinear c in the pronoun forms mc (e.g. 9rb8), pc (e.g. 9rb5),
against sile (e.g. 8vbl7), ek (e.g. 8vb2).
Hånd 2 has a short burst of initial c spellings on f.7rb and 7va (com,
7rbl8, 7va38; comazt, 7rb38; cona, 7rb27; caupa, 7rb39). There are none
elsewhere, but these are similar to the sporadic bursts of initial c spellings
in Hånds 2 and 3 of AM 564a (see 2.8, above).
9.9. Use of å.
d is not used in its old sense, or to represent original d. In Hånds I and 2,
dd is usually written out in full; Hånd 2 has two examples of the geminating
dot (Porodr, llvb20, fædr, llvb25, though the latter seems to be written
over a partially erased error, and may have been intended as fædr); but
Hånd 3 seems to use d for dd at least four times (three times in the name
Poroddr, at 8va9, 9rb5, 9vb3, also beidi for beiddi at 9rb29); there are also
six cases of d with the geminating dot, in Porodr at 8va6, 8vbl4, 9ra28,
greidir, 9va36, eyduz, 8va25, rædi 9ra6—but some of these are badly wom and
look as if the graph could originally have been 8. The name Poroddr also
appears a munber of times spelt with a single d, e.g. 9ra32, but the large
proportion of 8 and d graphs in this name could suggest a coherent system
in an earlier Ms., which might be more likely to survive in proper names
than elsewhere. This might tend to connect Hånd 3 here with the other
two fragments (see 2.9, above); however, the similarly unusual graph k
for kk also appears in this hånd, beside kk and k (e.g. gek, 9ra43, eki, 9ra20,
but gek, 9rb3, and ekki, 8vb2), and this might suggest that if there was
a coherent geminating system in the exemplar, its graph for dd may have
been d rather than å.
9.10. th spellings for t.
Sporadic ih spellings occur in Hånds 1 and 2. In Hånd 1 they are: ath
(lva36, 2rall, 4vbl8, 6ral2, the last at a line-ending), allth (2ral2), kvislazth
(4rb9, at a line-ending), skyllth (4va36, at a line-ending), thil (2ral2, perhaps
influenced by allth immediately preceding, but also at 4va35). In Hånd 2,
they are: ath (10va35, llra24, both at line-endings), huath (7rb27).
9.11. æ spellings for e.
In ff. 1,2, there are several cases of æ for e in short words, and they are
the majority in the word ær (verb or relative, e.g. 2ral2); cen, æk, æda also
occur (e.g. 2ra20, 2rb33, 2vbl3 respectively). In ff.3,4,5r such spellings
become rare (ær appears 8 times, e.g. 3ra39, er 76 times, e.g. 3ra2; no other
word shows æ spellings), and in the rest of Hånd I they do not appear at
all, except for the traditional form of er represented by æ with the -er/-ær
abbreviation added to it, and for the use of æ in the abbreviation for eigi,
which both remain sporadic, as also in Hånds 2 and 3, which show no other
OB spellings for e. There are no e spellings for æ in Hånds 1 or 3, but Hånd 2