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INTRODUCTION
(ii) The verb kveikja/kveikva shows both <ei) and (ey> forms:
‘kveiktt’ 33ra29. ‘kveikva’ 52vb6, ‘kveykðr’ 22va5; cf. ‘keykving’
39rbl2-13.
(iii) The falling diphthongs ja and já are occasionally written <ea).
The breaking and umlaut product appears as <io), <iav>.
10. Vowels in medial andfinal syllables. (i) In trisyllabic words and
compound elements medial a before final -u is usually shifted, appear-
ing most often as <v>, sometimes as <o> or <av>, e.g. in Hand A ‘talm-
oðv’ lrb26, ‘iatorvm’ 8vb3, ‘þyrfondvm’ 55rb8, ‘kavllavðvm’
lra39, ‘riddavrvm’ 25val8, 79ra32, ‘sytavndvm’ 16vb25; in Hand B
‘viliondvm’ 74val3, ‘sonnoðv’ 77rb4, ‘leitavðv’ 71rbl5, ‘elskavndvm’
74vbl0. Occasionally the medial vowel appears unshifted, e.g. Hand
A Tikamvm’ lva8, ‘hiaverandvm’ 33ra39, ‘Riddarvm’ 47rbl4; Hand
B ‘lofaðv’ (= S1 Tofadv’ 37/15), ‘biðiandvm’ 72vb9, ‘eptirkomandvm’
74val0.
(ii) Hand B reduces medial ei to <i> in ‘vovifligvm’ 64val3-14,
‘vafigliga’ (!) 78va7.
(iii) As commonly, medial ver becomes ur in ‘davgvrðar’ 37va43,
‘ondvrðvm’ 61va6.
(iv) Medial <o> is the norm in ‘postoli’ and ‘orrost-’ and in e.g.
‘þionost-’, ‘kvnnost-’, ‘vnnost-’, though these also show rare forms in
<ast>.
(v) The usual form is ‘hertvgi’ but ‘hertogi’ at 54va25.
(vi) The svarabhakti vowel is variously attested. In Jóns saga Hand
A shows the back spelling ‘goð verk yðr’ 58vbl and there are earlier
exx. of ‘yðr’ for yður, see e.g. lval, 6rb37, 14vbl4, 36, 44 (cf. ‘yðvr
skvrðgoð’ 15vb29), and occasional <vr) spellings in other texts:
‘vngvr’ 13vbl2, ‘bækvr’ 14ra22, ‘sem yðvr likar’ 16ra23, ‘fegvrstv’
16va34-35, 42va28-29, ‘bræðvrnir’ 16va31, 18va22, ‘sivkvr’ 21val8,
‘groðvrsetta’ 31ra27, ‘fiandvmir’ 43va4, ‘endvrnyia’ 81ra23. Hand B
has similar spellings in Jóns saga, e.g. ‘fætumir’ 62rb24, ‘kverkumar’
64ra22, ‘fegvrsta’ 66rbl5; and further exx. elsewhere, e.g. ‘bækvmnar’
67va41, ‘fiandvmir’ 76va20, ‘fagurlig(h)a’ 70rb32, 71rb37-38,
‘bræðvrnir’ 78vb26.
(vii) Compound adv. eyfit < ey vætt is always ‘eyf(v)it’, with com-
mon reduction in the vowel of the second syllable.
(viii) Both hands have the -endi suffix in this form, e.g. ‘bindendi’,
‘erendi’/tiðendi’, ‘heilendi’, ‘rettendi’; ‘sannyndi’ 26ra5 is anexception.