Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.06.2003, Side 73
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(iii) Long n is almost always indicated by <n), sometimes by <nn).
Before nom. ending r <nn) can be written for n by Hand A in e.g.
‘vinnR’ 6rbl5, ‘linnR’ 22rb20, 24, ‘vvinnrinn’ 43va39, ‘vannR’ 53vb4,
55ra26, but elsewhere both hands may write <n> for nn in forms like
‘manlict’, ‘vnv’, ‘skin’ (third person sg. skíná), ‘sanR’, ‘mvnR’, ‘finR’.
Hand B makes free use of <n>, sometimes marked by a macron or dot,
usually for long n, occasionally for short, e.g. ‘iamNsartt’ 70ra41,
‘gNyia’ 63ra22. Cf. VI 1 above.
(iv) Hand A commonly indicates long n finally after ð, k, p, r, s, t:
‘iðnn’, ‘liknn’, ‘diaknn’, ‘vapnn’, ‘fornn’, ‘iamn’, ‘orlavsnn’, ‘vatnn’;
both medially and finally after g and more frequently still after/: ‘geg-
nna’, ‘avgnna’, ‘iarteignn’, ‘frasavgnn’, ‘regnn’; ‘hefnna’, ‘efnni’,
‘stefnnt’, ‘hefnnðar’, ‘svefnns’, ‘iafnn’, ‘nafnn’. Hand B follows simi-
lar practice but less extensively. Intervocalic and final rn is sometimes
<rnn)/<rN>, e.g. ‘arnnaðar’, ‘bama’, ‘bækvrnnar’, ‘borN’, ‘hvernn’.
(v) Final n/nn in adj. forms and the definite article, free standing or
suffixed, appear as single or double <n) more or less indifferently,
though <nn> predominates in forms of hinn, <n> in forms of enn. The
gen. sg. m. and n. of the article is commonly written ‘hins’ and ‘ens’;
and the same applies to the suffixed gen. article, e.g. ‘iarlsinns’,
‘staðarinns’, and to stems in -n, e.g. ‘einns’, ‘morginns’, ‘meinns’.
Conj. en is written ‘en’ and ‘enn’ with equal frequency by Hand A, but
after a comparative ‘en’ is the norm and ‘enn’ the exception. Hand B
writes the conj. ‘eN’ more often than ‘en’. Adv. enn is usually written
‘enn’, but often ‘eN’ in Hand B.
11. (i) Both hands frequently write <pp) in ‘hialpp(-)’, and occasion-
ally before t, e.g. ‘heppta’, ‘okropptvg’, ‘st<e)yppt’. Ligatured <jp> is
used in some abbreviated pl. forms of byskup, e.g. ‘bjpvm’, ‘bppa’,
13val5, 63va27, 65vb36, 71rbl5.
(ii) ‘optna’ for opna (acc. sg. f.) occurs at 22val4.
(iii) Both scribes usually write ‘psalm(-)’ but occasionally ‘salm(-)’.
(iv) Forms in <pt> are general, also where the stem is in/, e.g. ‘þyrpti’,
‘hliptt’ (hlífa), ‘kiæpt’ (kæfa), ‘leyptt’ (leyfa), ‘ellipti’, ‘grapt-’,
‘gravptt’, ‘heiptvgR’, although rarer forms in <ft) are also found:
‘þyrfti’, ‘groft’, ‘gravftR’, ‘heiftt’, Toftinv’.
(v) ‘hvelpði’ for hvelfði has been noted in 42ral3.
12. (i) On <;> see VI 1. <r> is used as a graphic variant after and be-
fore a consonant in final positions, ‘hrygR’, ‘kraptR’, ‘reyckR’, ‘vaRt’,