Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.06.2003, Blaðsíða 78
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INTRODUCTION
(iv) The word sjór is generally written with <io> but acc. and dat.
‘sia’ and gen. ‘sia(f)var’ have been noted at 25va35, 30ra6, 45rb29,
45vbl6, 45vb43. The word snjór is in <io>, with dat. ‘sniofvi’ 42val2;
but compounded ‘snæ-’ in ‘snæblandna molld’ 66ra23-24.
(v) vegr is declined as an a-stem. It is commonly reduced in e.g.
‘þannvg’ but not in e.g. ‘einnveg’ 26vall. Both ‘avllvm (avðrvm) meg-
in’ and ‘megvm’ occur, see e.g. 2val9, 38ral4, 49va43, 44, 61va9.
(vi) Nom. pl. of maðr with suffixed article is ‘menninnir’ 23ral.
(vii) The words gjgf, kvQl and sQk may have ö-stem plurals.
(viii) Fem. nouns in -ing most often have final -u in the dat. Excep-
tions noted are e.g. ‘aaminning’, ‘kenning’, ‘ritning’, ‘skilning’, ‘þrenn-
ing’.
(ix) Fem. /-stems in -un more often appear with the ending -an\ the
gen. sg. ending is commonly -anar but -unar also occurs, e.g.
‘iðronar’ 30rb31-32, 33ral, ‘þionvnar’ 48vb27, ‘gofgvnar’ 53vb4.
(x) Acc. pl. of son(r) appears as ‘sonv’ and ‘syni’. Acc. pl. of spónn,
spánn is ‘spanv’ 71vb24. Acc. pl. of (mann)kostr is in ‘-kostv’,
31ra28, 31rb27, 31va2, 4, 38va30; in ‘-kosti’ 31rbl9, 38va24.
(xi) The form fagnaðr is generally preferred to fQgnuðr, acc. sg.
‘fognvð’ noted at 42rb43.
(xii) Nom. and acc. pl. of mánuðr (mánaðr) are usually ‘manvðr’
but acc. pl. ‘manaði’ is not uncommon, e.g. 2ra37, 7rbl4, 18vb25,
23vb33,52rb38.
(xiii) The usual form is jartegn (the only form in Jóns saga); in An-
tonius saga, Maríu saga and Vitae patrum rare exx. of jartein also oc-
cur, noted in 16rb2, 4-5, 36va20, 21, 77vb7; the few exx. in Páls saga
postola appear to show only jarteign; and the Thómas saga fragments
have both jartegn (eight exx.) and jarteign (four exx.).
(xiv) Gen. sg. of hók is ‘bokar’, e.g. 50rbl8, ‘bækR’ 50va30,
77ral0. Gen. sg. of nótt is ‘nætr’.
(xv) Hand B writes ‘hondinni’ 63va31, dat. sg. with suffixed article;
cf. ‘hendinni’ 63va34 and elsewhere.
(xvi) On forms of dyrr see VII 6 (ii) above.
(xvii) The word “hymn” has its usual form, weak m. ‘ymni’, but
nom. ‘himni’ occurs in 45ral6. In 30va30-31 ‘vxi’, ‘vxann’ and ‘ox-
anvm’ all occur.
(xviii) On oblique ‘rey(c)kiv’ see p. 51*, n. 20.
(xix) Hand A writes e.g. ‘skvgsia’ 13rb21, ‘forsia’ 18rb25, ‘asia’