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8. æ (and older œ) is usually expressed by <é), occasionally by <§)
or <e); the er/ir curl is freely used for the ær sequence. The ligature
<æ> itself has been noted only in the collocation ‘é. ok æ’ 5vb34.
9. Diphthong au is written <au>, occasionally <a/), chiefly as a
space-saver. The graph <ð> is not uncommon in the word auga and de-
rivatives, e.g. ‘ögliti’ lra21, 8vbl0, 14vb32, ‘ðgum’ 8va35, 9vb27,
ögu 17ra36, 17vb34, ‘ðgliosa’ 14vb8; occasionally elsewhere:
‘gðpnir’ 8vb9, ‘Þorlóg’ 10vb33, llrb9. Acc. n. of tveir is ‘tuö’ 8rbl;
cf. ‘Siðtian’ 5va31. Other diphthongs are written in conventional fash-
ion, with <ea) occasionally for já, e.g. ‘tream’ 6ra29, 16va30, ‘ek sea’
(pres. subj. sjá) 18rb3.
10. Shifted a in a medial syllable before an ending in u is normally
written <u>, e.g. ‘jdrudumz’ 5va36-37, ‘sðfnudu’ 8ra27, ‘blotudut’
14rbl6, ‘lofudu’ llvb35; occasionally <ð>, e.g. ‘deyiðndum’ 3rb30,
‘hryGÍðndum’ 3rb30-31, ‘riddðrum’ 13val2. Unshiftedain ‘likamum’
3rb 11 is exceptional.
11. Vowels in endings are regularly <i> and <u>, with a rare final <o>
(after <o> in the preceding syllable): ‘komo’ 17ral4, ‘konor’ 13val4,
15vb35, ‘orosío’ 7rbl0, 18rb4. The suffix -ind(-) is normal in e.g.
‘fridindi’, ‘eyrindi’, ‘likindi’, ‘Snemmindis’; substantivised part. in
‘fiareigindum’ 15vb29-30 shows front mutation; -lig(-) is also regular
but the element is often abbreviated as barred <1>. The svarabhakti
vowel is written in ‘ertur’ 6ra31, and an occasional back spelling con-
firms its existence: ‘ohéfr’ 2rbl5, ‘konr’ 5ra4, ‘þrétr’ 14rb20.
V. Hand A: Orthography. Consonants.
1. <c> is used only in the usual <ck> spelling for long k and superscript
= ‘ik’ as in e.g. ‘mc’, ‘mTu’.
2. (i) Round <d> is generally used for conventional d and ð. A clear <ð>
can very rarely be read, most often in abbreviated ‘gð’ = ‘guð’. <þ> is writ-
ten medially for ð only in association with an abbreviation bar: e.g.
‘u/rþmg’ llva30, 11 vb 15, ‘tiþmdi’ 10vb36,12ra 11, ‘fiorþ«ngrm’ 12va2.
(ii) <d> for t in past part. endings, the n. article and unstressed end
syllables is not often observed: e.g. ‘sed’ 6rbl6, ‘séd’ 15ra22, 18val9,
‘spad’ 8rbl5, ‘jatad’ 9rb36; ‘jd illa’ 5vb22, ‘id fyrra sinn’ 6rbl9.
(iii) <t> for ð is common, especially in the second person pl. ending
of verbs: ‘skulut’ 8vbl, 14rbl9, 16val6, ‘uilit’ 8vb2, ‘erut’ 2ra3, 6, 7,