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INTRODUCTION
is found more often in Hand B, especially in pp. forms, e.g. ‘vorð-’
62rb35, 37, 63ra24, 64ral7, 64rbll, 28; ‘worð-’ 64ra42; cf. ‘vox’
62ra5, 7, 63rb26.
(v) The sonant is occasionally omitted by Hand A: ‘davlðvz’
35vbl8, cf. ‘dawlin’ 10rbl9, and Hand B ‘dawl’ 67va23. Hand A’s
‘myrkastofvm’ 8vb4-5 and ‘saraði’ 9rb22 may be inadvertent, but cf.
Hand B ‘andsvr’ 67va34, ‘and/savr’ 71vb5-6.
6. (i) Long y is never marked.
(ii) Only <i) appears in forms of þykkja; <y> in compounded
samþykk(-), sundrþykk(-). <y) occurs throughout the paradigm of dyrr,
e.g. ‘dyrvm’ 2val6, 28rb27, 66rb24, 27, ‘dyranna’ 30ra26, and is
found in by-forms of þurfa, ‘þyrfva’, ‘þyrfondvm’, e.g. 7vb20, 8rbl4,
8va32, 32ra5-6, 55rb8.
(iii) In a number of words it may be assumed that <y> was not com-
pleted; we find e.g. ‘gnv’ 9vbl8, ‘onvta’ 26val3, ‘gvðinngrin'
44va34-35, ‘eviafiarðar’ 66ra36, ‘nvtsamliktt’ 80rb20, ‘vðr’ 76ra20.
The form ‘Trvggva’ in Hand A 60va22 could however be a relic (exx.
from Agrip cited by Lind, Dopnamn, s.n.); ‘navðzvn’ is a common
spelling in Hand A, e.g. 3va39, 3vb4, 4ra27-28, 8rb43, 15rb34-35,
19ra39, 30vbl2, 40ra5, but also ‘navðzyn’ 39vbl9.
(iv) Prep. and adv. fyrir is usually abbreviated ‘f’ but is written out
‘fyrir’ 7rbl0, and more commonly as ‘fyR’, e.g. in Jóns saga 57va7 and
61vb38, and elsewhere in 2rb43, 3val7, 19va38,22va7,23vb20,40rb26,
41rb33, 46rb23, 46va28 (the usual form of comp. adv. ‘fyrr’ is similarly
written ‘fyR’); ‘fyr’ and ‘fyri’ are rare forms, llrb30, 52va20, 2va43.
Hand B normally abbreviates ‘f ’ but writes ‘fyr/r/latið’ 68va27-28.
On <i)/<y) in forms of mikill see 3 (iv) above.
7. Older æ and æ are not distinguished. Both hands write <æ> almost
exclusively, with only very rare exx. of <e), <§): in Hand A ‘avðzeliga’
8vb28, ‘hvgkvemtt’ 28va24, ‘kiemi’ 50ra6 (but ‘kiæmi’ in the next
line), ‘s§mð’ 35rb28, ‘tgki’ 49rbl5; in Jóns saga Hand B shows a soli-
tary ex., ‘sekir’ 62rb6.
8. (i) Earlier q and p are not distinguished. In stressed syllables
they are more often expressed by <av), less often by <o). Marked <o> is
very rare but found in ‘mðtli’ 45vb35. The form ‘favrvnotr’ 45vb21 is
probably a back spelling.
(ii) Hand B writes ‘revmaðan’ 71va8, cf. Hand A ‘vhrornaðan’
2va20-21. Except possibly in ‘reyckiv’ in Hand A (p. 51*, n. 20 be-