Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.06.2003, Síða 79
THE S RECENSION
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(gen.) 50rb2; Hand B has ‘forsia’ 76vb34 but otherwise ‘-sio’ in e.g.
‘skvggsio’ 72va4.
(xx) Nouns of family relationship have their regular forms with
some exceptions and doublets. Acc. sg. of faðir appears as ‘feðr’
70rb26; dat. sg. as ‘feðr’ and ‘foðvr’, dat. pl. as ‘feðrvm’ 21ra25,
‘kennifeðrvm’ 37ra24, but ‘skriptafoðrvm’ 10vb31-32. Dat. sg. of
móðir is either ‘mæðr’ or ‘moðvr’; gen. ‘mæðr’ appears in Hand B,
66va32.
2. Adjectives and comparison. (i) Dat. pl. of weak adjs. is always in
<vm>.
(ii) Adjs. nálægr,fjarlægr are regularly declined as ja-stems, fátœkr
sometimes.
(iii) In Hand A the superlative ending is almost always <zt> before a
following vowel or nom. r; it is <z> or rarely <zt> where no ending fol-
lows (and then mostly adverbial in sense): ‘karllmannligaz’, ‘hellz’
(but also ‘hellzt’), ‘minnz’, ‘olygnvz’, ‘vænligaz’, but also ‘gavfgvzt’,
‘hvatazt’, ‘optazt’; Hand B writes final <zt> more frequently, e.g.
‘þægazt’ 64rb22, Tikazt’ 66va35, ‘framaztt’ 65vb31.
(iv) As well as in the usual forms, ‘fegrst(-)’, ‘first’ (adv.), ‘flest(-)’,
‘fremst(-)’, ‘fyrst(-)’, ‘hæst(-)’, ‘mest(-)’, ‘verst(-)’, the superlative suf-
fix appears elsewhere as <st> after n and r: ‘-kiænsti’ 25rb8, 26ral2-13,
‘vænstR’ 56val3, 26; ‘kiærsti’ 57vb38, ‘giorst’ 58va40, and in other
isolated exx., ‘biartasta’ 5ra25, ‘bestv’ 5va38 (normally ‘bezt(-)’),
‘þvngasta’ 9val8, ‘neðsta’ 30ra25, ‘miskvnnzamasta’ 46val7, ‘hag-
astR’ 58rb42; ‘nafnnfrægasti’ 67vb30 (cf. ‘frægazti’ 76rb35).
(v) There is some tendency to extend the comparative and superla-
tive -ar-, -azt- suffixes to adjs. which earlier usually had the -r- suffix;
cf. e.g. ‘agiætra’ 2val2, ‘agiætari’ 3rb2, ‘agiæztan’ 33va36, ‘aagiæsta’
46ra9, ‘agiætazta’ 18rb5; ‘rikri’ 35va38, 81vb33, ‘rikari’ 74va36;
‘slægzti’ 40ra34, ‘nalægstR’ 68ral9-20, ‘frægazt-’ 13vbl9-20,
76rb35; ‘kiærsti’ 57vb38, ‘kiærvztv’ 18vb33, 73rbl9.
(vi) Superlatives in -ligastr show syncope before a vowel ending, e.g.
‘hinvm dyrðligztvm’ 45vb 19-20, ‘eð rækiligzta’ 53rb3, ‘enn þeckiligzti’
56val4-15, ‘hinn virðvligzti’ 60ra42, ‘envm hæðiligztvm’ 76rbl4.
(vii) Before a vowel the -ig-, -ug- suffix of some adjs. may be syn-
copated, e.g. ‘(hinn) fiolkvngi’, ‘(hinn) syndgi’ (but also ‘hinn synd-
vgi’), ‘synðgvm’, and customary ‘almat(t)k-‘.
3. Numerals. On ‘tveær’ 57rb9 see p. 50*, n. 10. Dat. ‘tveim’ and