Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.06.2003, Síða 68
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INTRODUCTION
31rb29, ‘glictvz’ 17ra40; in Hand B ‘heRalict’ 73rbl6, ‘lyctat’
69va20.
(ii) <c) otherwise occurs in conj. ‘oc’, where sometimes it was evi-
dently preferred to ‘ok’ because a descender from a letter in the line
above would clash with <k>.
(iii) <c) is naturally used in Latin quotation and is also seen in words
and names of foreign origin, ‘predica’, ‘dicta’, ‘Iacob’, ‘Damesco’; cf.
‘capellv’ 50ral6, ‘capitvla’ 50rb34, 37.
3. (i) d and ð are kept distinct with only rare exceptions. <d> for ð is
so uncommon that it can be judged merely inadvertent. The only exx.
noted in Hand A in Jóns saga are ‘adr’ 57va8, ‘avdrvm’ 58rb6, ‘tid-
endi’ 60val3-14, and exx. are rarer still in Hand B. <ð) for d occurs
here and there after n and less frequently after /, e.g. ‘fvnð’ 2vb26,
43vb30, ‘senðr’ 5rb39, ‘fianðann’ 7rb24, ‘frænðr’ 27ral6-17, ‘blinðr'
28vbl3, ‘tiðenðe’ 57ra28, ‘enðr’ 80ral2; ‘vallð’ 5val6, ‘vallðr'
80rbl; and in Hand B e.g. ‘stvnðvm’ 71rb29, ‘fvnðv(-)’ 63rb3,
65va31, ‘vallðzens’ 71val4, ‘kvelðz’ 78vb41.
(ii) <ð) is normally written after / in the pret. of verbs of the second
weak conjugation, ‘dvalði’, ‘valði’, ‘hvlðv’ and so on (cf. ‘vallð’,
‘vallðr’ noted above); similarly in the fourth, e.g. ‘þolði’, and in words
like ‘elði’, ‘fiolði’, ‘kvlði’. Pret. forms in long syllable stems in l,fl
usually have <ð>, e.g. ‘deilðv’ 59rb41, ‘hrelðr’ 26vb36, ‘skylði’
30vall (skýla), ‘eflðiz’ 8rb32, ‘efllðr’ 60ra35. Pret. forms that show
both <ð> and <d> after / are ‘siglði’, ‘siglðv’ 44rb25, 45ra39, ‘sigldv’
41ra24, ‘hælðvz’ 43vbl4, ‘hælldvz’ 52ra44; cf. also ‘vesollð’ 50ra33,
59vb29, ‘vesolld’ 30vbl8, ‘astzælld’ 57rb36.
(iii) On the other hand, the pret. of venja(st) is usually in <nd), and
subst. vanði is usually spelt ‘vandi’. ‘synd(-)’ and ‘synð(-)’ appear
about equally often, and ‘skeinði’ appears in Hand A, 17vb31, ‘skein-
di’ in Hand B, 65va41. Hand B also has pret. ‘vndi’ 79ra37. <ð> is nor-
mally written in the pret. of dœma, geyma, gleyma, and after m, n in
abstracts like ‘nytsemð’, ‘skynsemð’, ‘framkvæmð’, ‘grimð’, ‘eymð’,
‘fyrnð’, ‘gimð’, ‘hefnð’, ‘hegnð’, ‘vernð’. Pret. offylgja is apparently
always in <ð>, of girna and fylla always in <t).
(iv) After a stem in k both <ð) and <t) are found: ‘kveykðr’ 22va5,
cf. Hand B ‘kveyktv’ 66rb3; Tvkðvm’ 33vb30, Tycðvm’ 38rbl8, ‘lykt-
om’ 33vb24-25, Tycktvm’ 80rbl7; ‘orægð’ 42vbl8-19, ‘vrækð’
42vb23, ‘vræktir’ (second pers. pret. sg.) 64rbl3; ‘slokðv’ 41rb20,