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INTRODUCTION
2. (i) e before ng is frequently written (ei>; e.g. ‘geingi’ 20va25,
‘eingil’ 23rb31, Teinghi’ 24vbl9, ‘feingit’ 35va3.
(ii) vé becomes væ in pron. vér and subst. vél; e.g. ‘vær’ 20va26,
23rbl, ‘vgr’ 28ra21; ‘vælar’ 38ra30, ‘vaéla’ 42rb8, 53val0. Note also
‘hlæradi’ 66rb8.
3. <y> is written for u/ú, chiefly in the middle and later part of the text;
e.g. ‘þyrkar’ 42ral4, 27, ‘snyazt’ 43ra9, ‘drykit’ 43ral9, Tyti’ 48vb5,
‘skyrgoda’ 49rbl3, ‘lynd’ 53ral3, ‘þysti’ 53vb26, ‘yndir’ 54rb6.
4. Svarabhakti u before final /• is acknowledged in many back
spellings; e.g. ‘nockr’ 19va22, ‘veizlr’ 19va30, 24rbl6-17, ‘milr’
28ral-2, ‘þrætr’ 45va8, ‘vigslr’ 47rbl7, ‘fiogr’ 66vb2; cf. ‘Sygrdi’
33rb34.
5. (dh> is frequent for ð, occasionally for d; e.g. ‘hygdhi’ 22va32,
‘verdh’ 23ral2, ‘vardhveitti’ 24rbl6, ‘ordh’ 27ral7, ‘aundh’ 42ra36.
6. (i) Initial g is retained almost without exception in ‘gnóg(-)’ and
derivatives; e.g. 19val5, 21 rb 12, 14, 22vbl0, 24vbl4, 37ra33,
46val0, 49vb32, 53rb 11, 65va7; but ‘nóga’ 19vb29, ‘nogligar’
28va22.
(ii) g is intrusive in ‘fiarglægra’ 41ral3.
(iii) Palatalisation of g is indicated in ‘gior(-)’ forms but not before
æ.
(iv) <gh> spellings are common for g intervocalic and final, after
and before n, before ð, and rarely for gg; e.g. ‘fimtighi’ 20rb32,
‘deghi’ 22val9, ‘megha’ 22vb3, ‘tregha’ 24ral0, ‘laúgh’ 30rb7; ‘penn-
ingha’ 20rb32, ‘einghla’ 23va4, ‘þrenninghu’ 54ra6, ‘fulltingh’
59vb3, ‘saghnir’ 24ra29; ‘laghdan’ 23rb24, ‘byrghdi’ 23rb28; ‘arm-
leghi’ 22vbl, ‘skugh sio’ 48rb 11-12.
7. There are some rare instances of redundant initial h: ‘helska’
43ra2, ‘ha/gustinus’ 43rb37, 48ra20, ‘bolhauxvm’ 54vbl6, ‘haullum’
54va9.
8. (i) Lenition of k has been noted in the acc. sg. pronouns ‘mig’,
‘þig’ and ‘sig’; e.g. 66vb22, 32ra22, 39rb21, 40ra23, 66vb21, 67rbl7;
23rb7, 68rbl. Cf. the back spelling ‘steik’ for steig 45ra5.
(ii) Palatalisation of k is indicated in pret. pl. ‘kioru’ 54va25. It is
not found before æ.
9. (i) The distinction between <lld> and <ld> (from older Ið) is gene-
rally maintained but not with complete rigour; cf. ‘fiolldi’ 31vb22,
59vbl2-13, 65rb29, ‘fiollda’ 25va29, 28rb30, 52va9; ‘þolldi’ 35rbl9.