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INTRODUCTION
‘þrim’ are regular, with a single ex. of ‘þrimR’ noted at 81va40. Hand
A has both ‘þrifallt’ 9rb25, ‘þrifalldan’ 49ra4-5, and ‘þrefvalld-’
34ra7, 38rb38; cf. ‘tvefvalldan’ 45ra28. He writes e.g. ‘siautigir’,
‘siavndi’, but ‘siofalldri’ at 39va25. Ordinals are both ‘atti’ and ‘attandi’,
‘ellipti’, ‘þritvgvndi’, ‘fimtvgvndi’, but ‘fertvganda’ 34va27, 38. The
form of the word t0gr, tugr, tigr is almost invariably the last, with
‘fiorvm tvgvm’ noted at 48va22, ‘þrim tvgvm’ 60val4-15; acc. pl. is
‘tigi’ except in ‘fiora tigv daga’ 48val2, ‘þriatigv daga’ 51rb37. As a
compound element it appears as ‘-tvg’, ‘(-)fertvgR’ lvb32, 57rb20,
‘halfimtvg’ 37rb40-41; in Hand B ‘þritugtt’ 70vb29, ‘fimtugvm’
62rb26, 63vb20. Both ‘hvndrvð’ and ‘hvndrað’ appear as pl. forms.
Gen. pl. ‘þvsvndraða’ occurs at 24rb42.
4. Pronouns, definite and indefinite. (i) Hún is abbreviated ‘h°’ and
‘hö’ but written out ‘hvn’ and occasionally abbreviated ‘hv’.
(ii) Second person pl. is usually ‘þer’ but ‘er’ sometimes in inverted
constructions, e.g. ‘kostgiæfit er’ lva41, ‘mvnvt er’ llrb24. Posses-
sive adj. forms of the second person pl. are almost uniformly without
medial -v-, but ‘yðvaRar’ has been noted at 17ra34.
(iii) The collocation ne ein(-) is always written ‘ne ein(-)’, never
‘nein(-)’.
(iv) The neg. pronoun is chiefly in <eng)/<eing). Acc. sg. m. ‘engan’
is the norm, but ‘ongan’, ‘avngan’ also occur, and sg. dat. n. ‘ongv’,
dat. pl. ‘avngvm’ appear occasionally (in Jóns saga ‘avngvm’ at
66val6 in Hand B is the only spelling which reflects öng-). Nom. sg.
m. ‘e(i)nginn’ appears at 19ra37 (adj.) and 80va43 (pron.). Nom. pl.
m. ‘eingvir’ occurs at 64ra4. Gen. sg. m. and n. is ‘einskis’ and rarely
‘engis(s)’. Gen. sg. f. ‘engaRar’ occurs at 49va22, elsewhere ‘engrar’.
(v) The phrase einshvers staðar is always written with ‘eins-’.
(vi) Pron. and adj. nokkurr appears in ‘nackv-’ forms alongside
‘nock-’ forms chiefly on fols. 1-19 (Antonius saga) and on a smaller
scale on fols. 20-55, e.g. nom. sg. m. ‘nackvaR’ 7va20 but nom. sg. f.
‘nockvR’ 7va21. (Nom. m. rr in this form is simplified in only one ex.,
‘nackvar’ 2ra5.) Acc. sg. n. occurs as ‘nockvt’, ‘nockvð’, ‘nockvrt(t)’,
‘nackvat’, ‘nackvart’.
(vii) The sg. form is ‘hvartveggia’, the pl. ‘hvarirtveggiv’. Nom.
‘hvartveggi’ is rare, noted at 23ra9 (Hand A), 78ra20 (Hand B).
5. Demonstratives and the definite article. (i) Nom. sg. m. and f. sjá
and þessi both occur, with þessi in the majority.