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commonly written in ‘egi’ (justified by supposing g was palatalised?),
elsewhere in e.g. ‘fleri’, ‘vetir’, ‘þer’, ‘þera’. The svarabhakti is sel-
dom written, but ‘sarbetur’ and ‘rettur’ occur and there are rare back
spellings, e.g. ‘foðr æt’. Suffixes are -lig(-) and ynd-, though rettendi
when it occurs is written with (e) in the suffix.
(iii) <c) is freely used in the standard copulative ‘oc’, in initial <sc>,
e.g. ‘scog’, ‘scapti’, ‘scornar’, for unvoiced g in suffixes, e.g. ‘kvNÍct’,
and in <ck) for long k. <t> is common for older ólþ after k: ‘sekt’ and
‘sekþ’, ‘af rekþiz’, ‘af rektiz’; and often written finally in ‘hofvt’, ‘herat’,
‘forat’, ‘fenat’, and exceptionally in prep. ‘met’, ‘vit’. Both <ð> and <d>
appear after m: ‘skynsemð’, ‘nytsemðar’, but also ‘skemdum’, ‘nyt-
semdar’. <ð> is often written after n: ‘sunðr’, ‘henðr’. Initial g has been
lost in forms of (g)nógr, gg is simplified in e.g. ‘trygðir’. <h) is rarely
written in initial hl, hn, hr: Tuta’, ‘lytr’, ‘liota’, ‘lotid’; ‘nefa’,
‘neyxla’; ‘rindr’, ‘rezlo’. In two cases the scribe wrote ‘efir’ and ‘afi’
for hefir and hafi, made good by a little <h> written superscript with an
insertion mark below it. No spelling indicates lenition in e.g. refl.
pron. sik. Long k can be written <k> in pret. ‘fek’; <q) is used in e.g.
‘kyquendi’, ‘vqueðis’. The con-nota (made like a curvaceous figure 2)
is found in various forms of kona. Before d and t <11> is usually written
but there is some variation, e.g. both ‘villdi’ and ‘vildi’, ‘skalld’ and
‘skald’, ‘mellt’ and ‘melti’. Before older ð single <1> is the norm, e.g.
‘taldar’, ‘við skilðr’. Third sg. present of vilja is both ‘vil’ and ‘vill’, of
skilja both ‘scil’ and ‘skill’, of hylja ‘hyllr’. Single <m> is written fi-
nally in e.g. ‘skom’ (subst.) and ‘fram’. Only <pt> spellings are found
in ‘eptir’, ‘opt’, ‘heipt’, ‘skript(-)’, ‘ellipta’, and so on. Distinction be-
tween rr and r in final position is irregularly maintained; third sg. pre-
sent of bera, for instance, appears as ‘ber’, ‘berr’, ‘beR’; adv.fyrr is of-
ten written ‘fyr’, and comp. adv.firr is spelt ‘fir’; nom. sg. m. ‘annar’
occurs beside ‘annaR’; and there is variation between <r> and <rr> in
gen. pl. ‘aNara’, ‘aNarra’, ‘þeirra’, ‘þeira’, ‘þera’. rs assimilation is at-
tested in e.g. ‘fysta’, ‘fæslv’. Long 5 is indicated in nom. sg. m.
‘sakla/ff’ but not in pres. sg. ‘eyf’; gen. þess is sometimes written
‘þef’; a usual abbreviation for it is ‘þs’. t is written <tt> in ‘vittnum’,
‘vittrvztu’; tt is occasionally reduced, e.g. in ‘naturo’, ‘ætleiðingr’,
‘etkvisl’. The supine ending is in <t), except for a solitary instance of
‘lotid' (but elsewhere e.g. ‘getit’); nom. sg. f. of andaðr is ‘onduþ’.
Lenition of t to ð can otherwise only be inferred from the spellings