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INTRODUCTION
‘hatRs’, and at the end of a line, 22rb20, ‘hvaRRs’. ‘hRæra’ in Hand B,
66va28-29, is a rarity.
(ii) Finally after a stressed vowel (r) often represents rr, sometimes
only r. Nom. sg. m. of hverr, for instance, appears variously as ‘hveR’,
‘hverr’, ‘hve/'R’, ‘hver'; nom. sg. f. can appear as ‘hveR’ 47va3, cf.
nom. sg. f. adjs. ‘vaR’ lvb5 and ‘nockvR’ 7va21. Third person sg. of
fara is usually ‘feR’ (but second sg. ‘fer’ 9rb 15), of bera ‘beR’ (but ‘ber’
4rbl3), of spyrja ‘spyR’ (cf. ‘spyr’ 4rb41, from spýja). Prep. and adv.
‘fyR’ are usually so written, but prep. ‘fyr’ occurs at 1 lrb30. After æ the
nom. m. ending is often (r) in Hand A: ‘avðsær’ 18va7, ‘greiðfær’
38rb3 (but ‘-fæR’ 12vb27-28), Tettfær’ 38ra37, ‘kiær’ 56val9.
(iii) In dissyllabic forms nom. sg. m. is usually written with final
(r) in ‘nockvR’ (but ‘nackvar’ 2ra5), ‘annaR’ (but ‘ahnar’ 61ra39),
‘ockaR’, ‘yðaR’. Proper name Gizurr, on the other hand, is normally
written ‘Gizvr’ in the nom. (11 exx. in Jóns saga), with ‘Gízvr’ noted
only at 60val8; cf. nom. ‘Einar’ 61vbl. The usual form appears to be
‘framaR’, but ‘siðar’ and ‘siðaR’ occur side by side.
(iv) In medial intervocalic positions (r> represents long r (and com-
pounded rr in ‘snaRæðis’ 57ral8), e.g. ‘þvRvm’ 28rb43, 38rb8 (cf.
‘þvrrvm’ lOrbl), ‘hinar stæRÍ’ 32vbl2 (cf. ‘inar smæri’ in the same
line), ‘heRa’ 56va29 (and frequent elsewhere), ‘vitfÍRÍng’ 64ra31-32;
‘fyRÍ’ and ‘fyRa’ are the norm. (r) is also usual in gen. pl. and gen. and
dat. sg. forms like ‘vaaRa’, ‘yðaRa’, ‘þessaRa’, ‘annaRa’; ‘yð(v)aRar’,
‘váRar’, ‘þessaRar’; ‘yðaRÍ’, ‘annaRÍ’, ‘nockvRÍ’, ‘navckvaRÍ’. Hand A
once has an aberrant nom. pl. m. ‘nockvrrir’ 16ra20; and while he
writes the comp. of adj. hár as ‘hæra’ at e.g. 4rbl4, and the gen. pl. of
adj. fár as ‘faara’ 34vb36, the gen. pl. of nýr appears as ‘nyRa’ at
60va4. Hand B has gen. sg. f. ‘nockvrar’ 66ra40 but ‘nockvRar’ 66rb6;
gen. pl. ‘hvaratveggiv’ 78rb25 but ‘hvaRatveggiv’ 68vb36-37.
(v) Hand A normally writes gen. pl. ‘ymissa’, and once dat. sg. f.
‘skynlavsi’ 17va43, but elsewhere ‘skynlavsri’ 13va41, ‘-lavsrar’
39ra24, ‘endalavsri’ 14vb27, ‘dæmilavsrar’ 80rbl8-19, ‘mallavsra’
4vbl4.
(vi) Some spellings indicate rs assimilation to ss: hvers and hversu
are regularly written ‘hverss’ and ‘hverssv’; cf. ‘nadversski’ 20va5;
further ‘hærsta’ 6ra8, 79va4, in Hand B ‘hærstv’ 73rbll, ‘hvasstveg-
gia’ 58val2, ‘fyst’ 58vbl3 (= fyrst; cf. in Hand B ‘fyrstir’ 67rb21 =
fýstir), ‘beirskliga’ 81ra9.