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INTRODUCTION
The name Skál(a)holt is usually written ‘Skalahollt’, but ‘Skalhollti’
appears at llral2.
2. Adjs. hryggr, þykkr remain declined as wa-stems. Acc. ‘al-
matkan’ and ‘almattigan’ both occur. Gen. pl. of ýmiss is ‘ymissa’ but
gen. sg. f. of vápnlauss is ‘uopnlausrar’ 13val2. Older ne ein(-), ne
eitt always appear as ‘nein(-)’, ‘neitt’. Apart from the superlative
forms normally in (st), the superlative suffix is (zt), including the un-
syncopated ‘enn þeckiligazti’ llval3-14; cf. ‘kersti’ 12vb21; both
‘uénztr’ and ‘uénstr’ occur, llval2 and 24. Final (z) appears in adv.
‘skiotaz’ and in ‘hellz’ alongside more usual ‘hellzt’.
3. Dat. of tveir is ‘tueimr’, n. acc. ‘tuö’; cf. ‘Siötian’, IV 9 above.
4. The f. pron. is ‘hon’. Forms of yðvarr are always with medial -v-
((u». The neg. adj. and pron. is nom. sg. m. ‘engi’ and ‘engin’, acc.
‘engan’, gen. ‘enskis’; öng- forms are rare, e.g. ‘öngan’ lva5, 4vb31.
The neg. prefix is written (o>; ‘usémilikt’ 8va27 is exceptional.
5. The article varies between en(-), in(-) and hin(-) forms. A solitary
instance of a weak declined article after a demonstrative is in ‘þeirar
enu helgu konu’ 6va29.
6. Pret. and past part. of flýja are ‘flydu’, ‘flyit’; pret. of stíga both
‘steig’ and ‘ste’. The verb játa shows ‘ek jati’ in the first person pre-
sent sg. but past part. ‘jatad’. (Since no third person endings in the first
sg. are to be observed elsewhere, this presumably shows a mixed de-
clension; cf. p. 46*.) Strong verbs show regular forms in the second
person pret. sg., e.g. ‘bart’, ‘uart’, ‘geckt’, ‘gaft’, after t in the stem
‘hetz’, Tetz’. Both ‘þu uillt’ and ‘þu uill’ occur. The chief middle
voice ending is (z>, with the occasional use of (zt>: inf. ‘þuozt’, pret.
sg. ‘redzt’, past participles ‘fundizt’, ‘uirdzt’; no (st> forms have been
noted, not even in ‘forzt’ 10rb26.
7. Neg. adverbs are ‘eigi’, usually abbreviated ‘e1’, and ‘alldri’. Adv.
‘brott’ is usual but ‘braut’ also occurs. Superlative of fram is ‘fram-
arst’.
8. Preps. með and við are the only forms, usually abbreviated ‘m;’
or ‘md’, ‘u1’. Prep. ór is consistently ‘or’ except in 4rb7 and 4vb4 (Se-
bastianus saga) where ‘vr’ is found. Only the conj. form ‘eda’ has
been noted. þegar appears to be a plain temporal conj. in ‘þegar eigi
bar adrar stor naudsyniar til’ 13ral0.