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THE S RECENSION
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against 2 with (i». In this habit Hand B evidently depends on his
exemplar, S1; see EIM VII, 50. The influence appears to continue in
Augustinus saga on fols. 67ral9-73rb25, but (y) and (i) spellings
there are pretty well equal in number (18 (y> against 17 (i». In the fol-
lowing Vitae patrum fragments, fols. 74v-78, he shows only (i> forms
(some 15 exx., including ‘miklvm’ 75va26). This may support an as-
sumption that the Vitae patrum exemplar was not in the hand of AM
221 fol.;cf. pp. 29*, 47*.
On (i)/(e) in suffixes and end syllables see 10 (viii, x, xii) below.
4. (i) Both short and long o is written (o> by Hand A. Hand B some-
times marks long o, almost always in monosyllables; exx. from Jóns
saga are noted in VI 3 above.
(o> is found sometimes in the pres. of skulu, e.g. 61ra2, 64rb35.
‘hogsvðv’ 52rb28 is an exceptional spelling. The form ‘kofl’ is gener-
ally preferred to ‘kufl’.
(ii) Prep. ór is normally written ‘or’, sometimes ‘ór’, rarely ‘yr’ (so
in Maríu saga, 42rbl3).
(iii) The neg. prefix appears as both (o> and (v>. In Hand A the ap-
proximate ratio of (o> to (v> is 7 : 3, in Hand B 4 : 6.
On (o> in medial and final syllables see 10 (i, iv, xii) below. On
‘hon’/‘hvn’ see IX 4 (i).
5. (i) (u>/(v>/(w>. Except in Latin quotation (cf. VI 2 above) Hand
A writes (u) very rarely: it is found e.g. in ‘nockut’ 2val8, ‘uegsam-
andi’ 3ral0, ‘uið’ 10va23, ‘ueitið’ 15rb2. Otherwise (v> is the rule for
both vowel and sonant. Hand B begins by using (u> and (v> indiffe-
rently but from fol. 64v he follows Hand A in normally writing (v>,
and (u) becomes rare and exceptional.
(ii) Long u is rarely marked, e.g. ‘vt(t)’ 2ra41, 28rb34, 38, ‘hvs’
22vb39; it is written double at a line-end, ‘trvv’ 23vb31. Hand B
writes (w> for the long vowel in ‘kw’ 65ral0, ‘swt’ 65vb42, and ap-
parently for úu in ‘kwm’ 65ral6, cf. ‘kuum’ in S1 43/12 reproduced
‘kuvm’ in Hand B. The faulty repetition at a line-break in S1,
‘v/vslettv’ 63/56, gave rise to ‘wslettv’ in Hand B.
(iii) Nom. forms ‘Þurið’ and ‘Þyriðr’ both occur, see 55va44,
55va26.
(iv) Analogical initial v is rarely introduced by Hand A and may be
indicated by (w> spellings, e.g. ‘wrðv’ 42ra23, 42va39, 44va33,
48val0 (cf. ‘wlkanvm’ 15ra41), ‘vvrðv’ 34rb33, 37, ‘vorðit’ 35val5-
16, 59vb32, ‘vorðin’ 60ra22, ‘voð’ 44va28, 45vb22, ‘vox’ 49rbl2. It