Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.06.2003, Blaðsíða 111
THE S RECENSION
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r. cf. poss. adj. dat. sg. f. ‘uáRÍ’, gen. sg. ‘uarrar’; ‘siðaRÍ’ and ‘siðarri’,
third sg. ‘skeR’ and ‘berr’. Small round <s) is rarely used; the word ‘sua’
is not usually abbreviated but has round <s) with a superscript pi-sign
when it is; otherwise round <s> occurs only in final position, most often
in the abbreviation ‘hs’ and in isolated exx., ‘umboðs’, ‘viðrmglis’,
‘huargis’. Distinction is made between nom. sg. m. ‘saklauff’, ‘bulauff’,
and pl. n. ‘skuldlauf ok umagalauf’; but long s is indicated in gen.
‘buff’. <t> is not written in ‘huarki’; tt is written <t> in two exx. of dat.
sg. f. ‘retri’ and in ‘retlegazt’. <z>, not made with a bar, is used finally
after //, nd, nn and rð: ‘allz’, ‘fiallz’, ‘landz’, ‘uinnz’, ‘manz’, ‘Hall-
varðz’, ‘garðz’; internally in words where a dental stem has the sk or sl
suffix, with or without expression of the dental itself: ‘samuitzku’,
‘þriozku’, ‘uarðueizla’, ‘afgreiðzlu’ (cf. ‘þyfsku’, ‘goðkuensku’).
(iv) A few forms to note are dat. sg. ‘forsio’ and ‘umsia’; ‘husfreyia’;
‘uiga ferdi’; pl. ‘hundrat’; superlative adjs. are in <st> except ‘beztr’ and
adverbial forms: ‘sannazt’, ‘retlegazt’; weak gen. pl. of beztr is ‘baztu’;
the f. pron. is written out as ‘hon’ in 7v9, as ‘hun’ in 7vl0; dat. sg. of n.
þat is regularly ‘þi’; ‘þessor’ occurs but only as n. pl.; the article is al-
ways in h-\ ‘nock-’ is usual in the pron. and adj. nokkurr, but ‘nack-’
also occurs; both ‘einnhverr’ and ‘einshuerium’ are found; <o) and <u>
appear as the neg. prefix in more or less equal numbers, though the fre-
quent word ‘obota’ is usually with <o>; the neg. adv. is eigi, abbreviated
‘e'’; only <eng> forms are found in the neg. pron. and adj. (‘engan’ is
usual but there is no ex. of ‘engin’); the gen. sg. m. of hvárgi is ‘huar-
gis’; third present plurals of eiga, mega, þurfa are consistently ‘eigu’,
‘megu’, ‘þurfu’; third sg. of vilja is ‘uill’ and ‘uil’, the former more
often than the latter; the middle voice ending is <z> throughout; adverbs
are ‘hueruitna’, ‘alldri’, ‘brot(t)’, ‘ellar’; preps. ‘or’, ‘með’ and ‘meðr’,
‘við’ (‘viðr-’ only compounded), ‘meðal’, ‘(i)milli’, ‘(i)millum’; conj.
‘eða’ is the only form noted; the concessive conj. is ‘þo at’.
2. Handll. (i) This hand writes fols. 9vl-7, 9vl4-15vl3, 15vl5 (last
seven words) -25rl7, 76v-78v. He writes a rather squat hand, with no
embellishment of tall staves and virtually no use of accent marks; <þ),
<k> and <1> are often marked by a short horizontal stroke to the left and
below the top of the stave. He writes a two-storey <a>, the upper ele-
ment often apical. d and ð are by no means invariably distinguished;
<þ> for ð is not uncommon. His <f> is <p>-like, with a small figure like
the numeral 2 attached to the top of the stave. He writes both roman