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INTRODUCTION
‘helgut’ 13va35, ‘sönnut’ 14ra28, ‘étlit’ 16vbl3; cf. subst. ‘fögnut’
14va6, pret. ‘kuat’ 5va20. Some instances may suggest the ð-t / t-ð
preference: ‘giördut’ 14rbl5, ‘blotudut’ 14rbl6, ‘uilldut’ 14rbl8,
‘jatad’ 9ra36, Tetud’ 14rbl7; cf. ‘hofudit’ 15val4 with ‘hofut’ in the
next line. On the other hand, the preference can hardly be counted a
rule: cf. e.g. ‘hittit’ (imp.) 17vbl8, past parts. ‘setit’ 18rb31, Tatit’
3ra3, ‘skotit’ 4val7.
(iv) After k earlier ðlþ has become t, e.g. ‘ostyrktar’ 3vb4, ‘ek ...
uakta’ 5vbl4, ‘uöktu’ 9ra25.
(v) nd assimilation in a cluster is evidenced in ‘uandmétti’ 13rb24
beside ‘uanmétti’ 13va2.
3. The verb form is samna in 3vb32, 9val2, safna in 7vb23, 8ra27.
On (ft)/(pt) spellings see 10 below.
4. (i) Palatalisation of g before æ is sometimes indicated: e.g. ‘agiét-
azti’ 7vb34, ‘giéta’ 8rbl8, ‘agiet’ 10va6, but not e.g. in ‘agéta’ 13ra2,
‘agetir’ 14rb7. Forms of gera are regularly in (io). Palatalisation be-
fore ilj + vowel is indicated by the back spelling ‘tégia’ 14ral6.
(ii) (g> is not written in ‘mart’ 14va23, 15vb9; gn is metathesised in
‘gengdi’ 13rb20.
(iii) Final gt is often spelt (kt>, e.g. ‘undarlikt’ 5ra20, ‘radlikt’
7ra31, ‘friduénlikt’ 7vb2.
5. Initial hl- is usually written with (h), always in the word hlutr for
instance, but (h) may be dropped in a compound, e.g. ‘braudleif(-)’
5val, 5vbl6, 15rb8; cf. ‘braudhleifin’ 15rb25. hr- is usually written
(hr>, but occasionally (r), e.g. ‘rédd’ 18rbl7.
6. No spelling indicates lenition of k to g.
7. (i) Except in ‘uildi’, ‘uildu’, (11) is usually written before d and t:
‘alldri’, ‘huilld', ‘elldligr’, ‘fylltiz’, ‘Skalahollti’. Single (1) is normal-
ly written before older ð: ‘fiöld(-)’ 9vb8, 13ral4, 14ra39-vbl (but
once ‘fiölldi’ 9val5), ‘skilduz’, ‘tðldu’, ‘kulda’, ‘dualdiz’.
(ii) (11) is occasionally written for / elsewhere, e.g. ‘mall’ 12vbl9-
20, ‘diöfull’ (acc.) 15ra32.
(iii) ‘Hiatland’ is the regular form, e.g. 9ra24, 9rbl2.
8. p is intruded in ‘skempta’ 4vb38, ‘skemptan(-)’ 5va33, 8va29.
9. (n> is frequently written for nn in the suffixed article; the free-
standing article sometimes has (n> where (nn) and (nn> where (n>
would be expected. Conj. and comparative particle ‘en’ is also often
‘en’. n is not written (nn) before d.