Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.06.2003, Blaðsíða 70
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INTRODUCTION
(iii) j/is simplified in ‘halfertvgR’ lvb32, ‘halfimtvg’ 37rb40-41.
(iv) /is lost in ‘þarnaz’ 33rb36. The loss in ‘kaðr’ = kaför 44rb30 is
probably inadvertent.
(v) fn is usually written <fn) or <fn«) (more often by Hand A) but
compounded jafn- not infrequently as ‘iam-’: ‘iamgamlir’, ‘iamnan’,
‘iamsaman’, ‘iamskiott’, ‘iamvel’; occasionally as ‘iamn-’, e.g.
‘iamNsartt’ 70ra41. Verb forms in safn- appear at e.g. 22va36, 44vb36,
69ra9, but ‘somnvðvz’ 24ra29, ‘samna’ 40/16.
(vi) ‘hvsprey(-)’ is the usual spelling; acc. ‘hvsfrey’ (sic) has been
noted at 81rb29.
(vii) On <ft)/(pt> spellings see 11 (iv) below.
5. (i) In words like bygð, hrygð single <g> is usually written, and oc-
casionally elsewhere for the long consonant, ‘hrygR’ 18ral4, 50vb2,
‘havgR’ 57ra25; but <gg> for long g is the norm.
(ii) Hand A very rarely writes intervocalic <gh>; no exx. have been
noted in the Jóns saga text; elsewhere ‘optligha’ 7va2, ‘sarleigha’
81vb21. Hand B commonly has <gh>, chiefly in -leg-l-lig- endings but
also e.g. in ‘megha’ 62vbl4 and elsewhere, ‘avreigha’ 63ra25, ‘Eighi’
63ra29, ‘dagha’ 66vb7, ‘alhvgha’ 67ra7, ‘athvgha’ 68rb22.
(iii) g is frequently expressed as <c>/<k> before t, e.g. ‘motstaðlikt’
5vb34, ‘verðvkt’ 15rb 18, ‘fysilict’ 18rb9, ‘fyllktt’ (past part. fylgja)
35va21-22; and more rarely before s, e.g. ‘marks folks’ 9vbl8-19; in
Hand B e.g. ‘hættlict’ 63vbl0, ‘dyrðlict’ 67ra4. Cf. back spellings
with <g> for k, ‘skagtt’ 38ra25, ‘orægð’ 42vbl8-19, ‘slogði’ 53ra43-
44; ‘breyskleigs’ 12va4; in Hand B ‘þv dragtt’ 64rbl2, ‘sligtt’ 66rb2,
‘fatægðar’ 71vb28.
(iv) Exceptionally Hand A has <k> for g finally in Tavk’ = ÍQg
57rb38, but cf. ‘teginn’ 57ra22.
(v) Initial gl- occurs occasionally, ‘glik-’ 16vb32, ‘glictvz’ 17ra40
but initial /- is usual in such words. Initial gn- is common alongside
n- in ‘gnoglig(-)’, ‘gnott’, ‘gnægð’, ‘gnægra’.
(vi) Hand A commonly writes ‘mart(t)’; his dat. of morginn is
‘momi’ 10val4, 27vb37; ‘hneiðiz’ occurs at 30rbl2; cf. acc. pl.
‘moma’ 66va7 and ‘marfallda’ 78va39 in Hand B.
(vii) Palatalised g before æ is regularly shown by the spelling <giæ>.
(viii) Back spellings show palatalised g after a front vowel before
Uj\ ‘nygiv’ 3ra3-4, ‘ægia’ 35vbl7, ‘meygivm’ 36va30, ‘endrnygivng’