Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.06.2003, Side 69
THE S RECENSION
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‘slogði’ (!) 53ra43-44, ‘slavktizt’ 7rbl3; ‘specð’ 36rb41, ‘spectar’
31vb3; ‘styrkðiz’ 20vb44, ‘styrkðr’ 35rb22, ‘styrkti’ 2vb20, 26vb39,
58rb25; ‘vakði’ lrb40, ‘vaktiz’ 53va20 (pret. vekja)\ ‘vakði’ 62val0
(Hand B), ‘vavktv’ 33vb37, ‘vakti’ 40va29 (pret. vaka).
(v) (d) is written quite commonly for dd in e.g. ‘mædr’ 2ra27,
‘stadr’ 21val7 and elsewhere, ‘fædr’ 24va2 and elsewhere, ‘brodr’
46va43, ‘breidr’ 50vb31, ‘prydr’ 56rb28 and elsewhere, ‘Þorodr’
58rb42; in Hand B ‘fædR’ 67ra43, ‘hrædr’ 62vb8, ‘-klædR’ 66rb30.
(vi) Hand A also occasionally writes (ð) for dd, ‘leiðr’ 25vb39,
‘staðR’ 44rb22, ‘fæðR’ 50va23.
(vii) Assimilation of Id and nd is frequently attested in the spelling,
e.g. ‘verallig(-)’ 2va41-42, 54vb36, ‘avðvellig(-)’ 4va41, 16va44,
‘tial(l)bvð(-)’ 8rb28, 19ra22, 29ra41, ‘hollgaðr’ 32va23-24, ‘hollgan’
37rb2-3, ‘skiallborg’ 41val0, ‘frænkona’ 32rb26-27, ‘annmarka’,
‘-morkvm’ 59ra22, 24; note the back spelling ‘mandligan’ 10ra27.
Hand B shows e.g. the back spelling ‘halldmæli’ 71rbl6; also ‘anlat’
65ra43, ‘anstefnaz’ 70rb38.
(viii) d is lost in e.g. ‘harla’ 2ra28 (usually ‘harðla’), ‘flærsamliga’
4va38, ‘normenn’ 47vb26. The forms ‘skvrðgoð’ and ‘skvrgoð’ occur in
both hands, see e.g. 21va39-40, 78ra33, 78rbl6, 80ra42, 78ra40, 78rbl0.
(ix) (ð> is written for þ occasionally in the word alþýða and com-
monly in íþrótt', ‘varðingi’ 60ra31 and ‘storðingvm’ 37vb24 have also
been noted.
(x) ðz appears as (tz> in ‘retz’, pret. of ráðast 57va27 (the same
form is the past. part. of réttast 20rb9); cf. the back spelling ‘Fliodzlið’
55vb38. Pret. of biðja appears as ‘bat’ in Hand A, ‘bat taka’ 24val8,
Hand B ‘bat sva miok’ 67vbl.
(xi) Etymological ð is rarely seen in past. parts., noted in ‘lyðt’
59vb25, ‘rvðtt’ 65va21, 66ral7.
(xii) On (z> for ds, ðs see 16 below.
4. (i) Misspelt ‘fredica’ 21rb32, ‘fryddv’ 57ra43, probably show
that the exemplar had the (p)-like insular (f>, on which see p. 160*. It
is the form used in S1.
(ii) Intervocalic / is often written (fv> by Hand A, less so by Hand
B. Hand A even writes ‘tvefvalld(-)’ and ‘þrefvalld(-)’ at e.g. 6vb21,
34ra7, 38rb38, 45ra28. Prevocalic (fv> also occurs after / and r.
‘skelfva’, ‘þyrfvandi’, ‘erfvitt’, ‘giorfva’, and in Hand B ‘hvalfvit’,
‘horfvÍN’.