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INTRODUCTION
(ii) In 169 the scribe introduces the <0) graph for ó in e.g. ‘spknvm'
62rl8.
5. (i) <u) and <v> appear to be written indifferently for both vowel
and sonant. Long u marked, as in ‘vt’, is a rarity. Analogical initial v is
sometimes introduced in ‘vordÍN’, ‘vorþit’. v is discarded in pl. n.
svörin, written ‘savrÍN’, NRA 80 (a) r3, cf. ‘savr’ in 169, 62vl5, and
‘tav’, ‘ta/’ for tvau, 169, 60v4, 68r7.
(ii) Dat. sg. n. of the demonstrative is often ‘þi’ in 169. Note ex-
pected ‘stvl(l)d’ alongside ‘stolld’ and ‘stpldr’.
6. (i) In the 57 group <y> is regularly written in ‘fyR(-)’, ‘fyrír’ and
similar forms. It is not found in any case of mikill. The forms ‘þycci’
and ‘þicci’ both occur.
(ii) In 169 ‘firir’ and ‘firi’ are found alongside ‘fyrir’, ‘fyRir', ‘fyri’;
comp. ‘fyrri’ can also be written ‘firi’. ‘þicci’, ‘þicciz’, ‘þickiz’ are
equally usual. eins kins has been noted at 34r20.
7. (i) Older g and 0 are denoted by <o> and <au> (rarely <av», the
former about three times as often as the latter. <o> is regularly written
in forms of nokkurr except in the occasional ‘naqu-’, ‘nequ-’ forms.
Marked <ó> is exceptional, noted once in NRA 69 r32 ‘vóxt’.
(ii) 169 similarly has chiefly <o> and <au>, with some cases of marked
<ó>, e.g. ‘netlóg’, ‘vók’, and rare instances of <0>, ‘0nnvr’ 43v20, ‘hand-
s0l’ 32v23. Unshifted forms also occur, e.g. ‘vagnum’ 39vl8, ‘hvalvm’
56r 11, ‘aðru’ 64vl3, ‘handsalvm’ 67r24, 67v23. Note ‘i exar þærum’
55v6, ‘a exár ár þíngi’, ‘til exar ár þings’ 73r5-6, 8.
8. (i) æ and œ are not distinguished, represented by <æ> and often by
<æ); <e> has been twice noted in NRA 57, ‘gefu maðr’ r2, ‘sem ek
vera’ v7-8, and <§> occurs twice in the interpolated passage on Sæ-
mundr (see V below). The incidence of marked to unmarked <æ> is
about 2 : 7.
(ii) <æ> and <æ> predominate in 169 but there is great variety besides,
enough to show the scribe did not discriminate between the /-mutation
products of á and ó\ thus <e> in e.g. ‘redr’, ‘tver’, ‘fatek(-)’; <é> in e.g.
‘nér’, ‘nétr’; <g) in e.g. ‘ngstR’, ‘tgmiz’, ‘b?ia’; <§> in ‘f?tt’, ‘b?ti’; <0> in
e.g. ‘0ttleidingr’, ‘n0str’, ‘b0ti’; <0> in e.g. ‘bpði’; <0> in e.g. ‘bóþi’. The
incidence of marked to unmarked <æ> is here about 2 : 3.
9. (i) The diphthongs au, ei, ey are normally written <au>, <ei>, <ey>
respectively, though there is a noticeable tendency to mark <ei> and
less often <au>/<av> with an accent. The diphthongs conventionally