Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.06.2003, Blaðsíða 75
THE S RECENSION
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(vii) Nom. r may be shed in ‘son’, ‘vin’, ‘Þvrið’ 55va44 (cf. nom.
‘Sigrið’ in Hand B 64ra20), and in the collocation ‘þicki mer’, e.g.
41va34, 55val, and in Hand B 62val4 (= S1 29/14).
13. (i) Both hands write <f> and <s) but in final positions any phone-
tic distinction conveyed is far from clear: in 81rb2-3, for example, the
nom. sg. m. of three adjs. in -lauss are written ‘matlavff’, ‘drycklavf’,
‘vitlavs’; cf. in Hand B nom. sg. m. ‘lavf’ 65rb42, ‘vitlavs’ 65va36-
37. Elsewhere nom. sg. f. adjs. appear as ‘goðfvs’ 12ral0, Tios’
39ral9, ‘tiðalavff’ 81val8, and nom. pl. n. ‘gros’ 60ra42 occurs close
to nom. sg. m. ‘bas’ 60ra44.
(ii) Final <ff) appear occasionally after a consonant, ‘nockvrff-
konar’ 5rb42, ‘nalægff’ 12va44, and more frequently in ia-stems,
‘himinrikiff’, ‘savrlififfins’, ‘ræðiff maðr’, and with <ss> ‘mvnklifv-
issinns’ 49ra26-27; in Hand B ‘leiðiffins’ 63rb30; cf. elsewhere ‘vm-
hverfviff’, ‘einfkiff’, ‘Tyss’; in Hand B ‘engiff’.
(iii) Double 5 is simplified in e.g. ‘kysti’ 12rb40, 60vb41, ‘mista’
45vb27; in Hand B ‘einshverstaðar’ 62ra41. The word guð is left un-
inflected in ‘gvð son’ 6vb33, ‘gvð sonR’ 32ral9, ‘gvð drottinns’
43rb39; cf. elsewhere ‘af gvði drottni’.
(iv) The collocation sjálfs síns is written ‘sialfs sins’ 77rb2-3 but
more often as ‘sialfsins’, 31rbl4, 38va36, 76va28; cf. ‘vm sinsakir’
62rbl 1; nom. ‘hverss sem einn’ 19va27; and with final t in the preced-
ing word ‘aa vitz sin’ 21ra36, acc. ‘briostz sitt’ 35vb24.
(v) In demonstr. sjá, þessi Hand A commonly writes out forms with
<ff> and seldom abbreviates ‘þs(-)’. Hand B makes more regular use of
this abbreviation but also has ‘þff-’ and written out ‘þeff-’ forms.
14. (i) Both hands often write final t as <tt) or <tt>, both when ab-
solute and less often before nom. /*: ‘hofsamtt’, ‘vtt’, ‘fvlltt’, ‘byrgtt’,
‘kraptt’, ‘hvgkvæmtt’, Tangtt’, ‘þvngtt’, ‘mælltt’; ‘lvttR’, ‘kattR’, ‘fottR’;
cf. third pers. sg. ‘littR’ in Hand B 57vbl4; internally <tt> for t is rare,
e.g. ‘hattri’ 68vb5.
(ii) Final tt or ttr is frequently written with a single <t>, again by
both hands: ‘ret’, ‘sæt’, ‘iamhat’, ‘brat’, ‘ræt’, ‘got’; ‘setR’, ‘pytR’,
‘osletR’, ‘letR’, ‘knytR’; rarely in medial positions, e.g. ‘hæti’ 52rb20,
‘veðrata’ 60ra30. tt may also be written <t> in compounded forms,
‘ætbogi’, ‘ætmaðr’, ‘natsavng’, ‘hætlict’.
(iii) t is occasionally dropped in a cluster: ‘pisli’ 23rb28 (elsewhere
‘pistli’), gen. pl. ‘geirvarna’ 47vb3, ‘ap/nni’ 76ra28-29.