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In NRA 57 <z> is usual (12 instances) but two forms in <st> occur and
one in <stz>: ‘gimtist’, ‘vndruþust’, ‘girntistz’.
8. Adv. forms include ‘ella’, ‘ellar’, ‘elligar’; ‘hvarvitna’ and ‘hver-
vitna’; ‘brot(t)’ and ‘braut’; ‘þannog’ and ‘þannig’ (the latter rare); and
‘þatan’.39
9. Prep. o/occurs in a single instance in NRA 57 r9. Prep. ór is writ-
ten ‘or’, ‘ór’. Both ‘med’ and ‘medr’, ‘vid’ and ‘vidr’, ‘medal’, ‘amiðil’
and ‘a millom’ are used. The concessive conj. is ‘þott’, infrequently
‘þot’ and ‘þo at’. No instance of eðr for eða has been noted; the latter is
often abbreviated ‘eþ’.
VI. Notes on the other hands of AM 169 4to.
1. Hand 1. (i) This hand writes fols lv-9r in a neat, regular script. He
writes both two-storey <a> and a squat insular form which can resem-
ble cursive <a>; he makes no use of the nota for ok, favours ligatured
<bo>, <do>, <go>, and in four exx. of the word útlegð he uses the rather
rare <gð> ligature;40 his <f> has the <p>-like form; <g> is made as <o> with
Kjartan G. Ottósson, The Icelandic Middle Voice, 266, refers to a good many such
forms in AM 232 fol. (c. 1350), Jóns saga baplista II by Grímr Hólmsteinsson, who
died in 1298.
39 He writes the word in full more than once, see 169, 46v5, 75v22, and NRA 57 r30. It
might then also be the form implied in his abbreviated ‘þan’> found in 169 at e.g. 40rl5-
16, 41 r 1, 52vl5, 16, 70v5, and in NRA 69 v32. That would be consistent with the fact
that, despite sometimes using <d>/<ð> for t in past part. endings and confusing dual pron.
vit and prep. við (cf. IV 14), he nowhere writes the n. article as ‘ið’, particle at as ‘að’,
demonstrative þat as ‘það’. There is some evidence that ‘þatan’ is a genuine form (pre-
sumably then a case of dissimilation). The files of AMOrdbog have some eighteen exx.,
most of them in manuscripts from the end of the fourteenth and through the fifteenth
century. The form occurs however in two manuscripts of an age comparable to that of
169, AM 623 4to (c. 1325; at 60/5 in the edition of this manuscript by Finnur Jónsson)
and AM 135 4to (Amarbælisbók; c. 1350; Grágás III, 157/16, 175/22, 24, 25 (2 exx.),
177/12, 13, 14, alongside various forms of þaðan). The isolated ‘þandan’ found in NRA
57 r29 is, on the other hand, probably best counted a spelling mistake rather than a form
affected by ‘þanan’, which occurs in Hauksbók (Hb., xxvii; cf. Seip, Studier, 78).
40 Seip, Palæografi, 25, noted this ligature in NRA 1 B (c. 1180: cf. Spehr, 135) and
NRA 73 (c. 1200); Hreinn Benediktsson in AM 655 XXVIII a 4to (1250-1300), Early
Icelandic Script, pl. 69, line 21; Jón Helgason as a frequent form in AM 75 b fol. (not
later than c. 1350) and 75 c fol. (towards 1350), OHJH, 911, 914; it occurs too in AM
235 fol. (towards or about 1400; Hand C), see p. 83* below.