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INTRODUCTION
(vi) In Hand A lenition to g has been noted only in acc. pron. ‘þig’,
22va20, 26ral, 47ral8, 49rb37, 39, 50rbl0. The same form is com-
mon in Hand B, and he further shows the change in ‘sig’ 62rb44,
63ral6, 65va41, 66ra9, 66va28, 36; in ‘miog’ 62va34, 62ra7 (miswrit-
ten ‘mig’); and once in ‘og’ 64ra35.
8. (i) The general rule is that (11) is written before d and t, (1) before
ð. There are deviations, though spellings like ‘efflðv’, ‘vesollð’, ‘vallðr’
suggest that what was written as (ð) was pronounced as d\ cf. ‘efllda’
25va9, ‘vesolld’ 30vbl8. Single (1) before t is found in e.g. ‘mælt’
56ra30, ‘helt’ 22rbl5; in Hand B ‘mælt(t)’ 62rbl3 and elsewhere, ‘altt’
63rb44, ‘heilt’ 62rbl4, ‘altari(-)’ 65vb41, 66ral6 (cf. ‘alltar-’ 66ra2).
(ii) Hand A occasionally writes (11) medially before a consonant,
e.g. ‘neglldir’, ‘fyllgð’, ‘hiallp(-)’, and finally after / g: ‘afll’ (cf.
‘skafll’ in Hand B), ‘kofH’, ‘segll’, ‘tvngll’; here and there in other
words, e.g. ‘meizll’, and after a vowel, ‘tall’ 22vb21, ‘palls’ (= Páls)
23ra23, ‘Egills’ 55vb42.
(iii) The words karl, jarl, varla are most often written with (rll) and
the spelling doubtless reflects rl assimilation, confirmed by ‘salliga’
52rb4 for sárliga.
(iv) Prevocalic ll in compounded forms may be simplified, e.g.
‘aflavsir’ lvb4, ‘litilæti’ 56vbl3, ‘meðalags’ 60rb32, ‘engilict’
76vb30; less often in full- where the second element begins with a
consonant, e.g. ‘fvltrvi’ 45rb30, ‘fultings’ 62rb6, ‘fvlgiora’ 73rb21,
and I is sometimes lost in clusters: ‘efðiz’ 45va31, ‘falvatligvm’
3val3-14, ‘fallvattligar’ 76vbl9. The forms ‘hiapðv’ (imp.) 49ra37
and ‘siaf’ (n. pl.) 70val0 are doubtless to be counted norwegianisms;
cf. Noreen, § 297.
(v) lk is metathesised in ‘skekltv’ 60va38.
9. (i) Single (m> is usually written in ‘fim’, ‘fram’, ‘grim-’, ‘skam-’
and derivatives but (mm) when intervocalic, thus e.g. ‘grimleiks’,
‘grimliga’ but ‘grimmvztv’, ‘ogrimmari’; ‘skavm’, nom. sg. f., but
‘skavmmv’. There are odd exx. of ‘fimm’, 34va41, 64rb23, and
‘stormm’ occurs at 64rb32.
(ii) Intrusivep is seen in ‘heimpti’ 15rb5.
10. (i) Single (n> is often, but not invariably, written before d, t, z in
e.g. the pret. of kenna, nenna, and gen. ‘manz’.
(ii) n is lost in ‘iafvel’ 19va20, 78vb31, ‘hefð’ 35ra28, and in the tns
cluster to give gen. sg. ‘vatz’.