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(ii) In the Óláfs saga helga text the forms ‘hreinbialb(-)’ and ‘þamb-
arskelbi(r)’ occur, see 32va34, 32vbl, 33va20, 34ra2, 33ra32-33.
Elsewhere we find (lp) written for If in ‘skialpa’ 26rb7, ‘oskialpandi’
38ra6, ‘skelpda’ 59vb8.
10. (i) For initial and intervocalic p we find (f) written here and
there; e.g. ‘fellum’ 34ra5, ‘fisl’ 39vbl4, ‘hofadi’ 33ra32, ‘grifu’
39rbl0, ‘svifinn’ 31ra22, and more than once in ‘svifum’ 39vbl2,
40va34, 54ra28. (p> for / is less common: ‘leypi’ 53ral9, Teypdi’
59rb27, ‘piskar’ 53rbl3, ‘skopo’ 56vb34.
(ii) (pn> is found for etymological fn in ‘sapna ek’ 53vb36, ‘opn’
38rb3, 54rb22 (cf. ‘ofni(-)’ 38rb5, 6, 11, 54rb30), and with natural
metathesis ‘enpt’ (= efnt) 50rbll.
(iii) (pt> is usual in ‘eptir’ and ‘opt’; ‘aptur’ is common but ‘aftur’ is
also well represented; ‘gropt’, ‘grapt-’ appear most often but ‘grauft’
at 33ra6; ‘krapt’ is the form at 38rb4 but ‘kraftur’ at 65vall; other
doublet forms are ‘hefta’ 25ra31, ‘hepta’ 56rb29, ‘höftum’ 64va36,
‘hauptum’ 41ral, past part. ‘haft’ 42va8, 62vb38, ‘hapt’ 25rb21-22.
The verbs gefa and leyfa show one or two (pt> spellings: ‘gapt’
40ral7, ‘Gapt þu’ 56vall, Teypt’ 58rb25; and þurfa is most often
with (pt>: ‘þarptu’ 32rbl9, 54ral4, ‘þu þarpt’ 51ra4, ‘þurpti’ 26ra24,
63vb33, ‘þyrpta ek’ 36ra25, ‘þyrpti’ 48va4, ‘þyrptu’ 45vall; cf.
‘þurptug’ 47vb36.
11. (s> where one would expect (z> and (z>/(zt> where one would
expect (s> is a sporadic but widespread feature; e.g. ‘fæsla’ 44rb25,
‘hræslu’ 44rb23, 61rb3, ‘æstv’ (superlative adj. œðstr) 65vb37, ‘best(-)’
21ra32, 31rb2, 9, 32val 1, 44ra6; ‘breyzkleics’ 23rb20, ‘fyrzt’ 42rbl9;
‘einskiz’ 59vb28, 62vb5, 67rb26-27, ‘vmhuerfiz’ 54vb26, 57rbl9,
‘retleidiz’ 65rbl4, ‘vmhverfizt’ 31va34, ‘erfidizt’ 51ra8, ‘snemenðizt’
55va25,‘nyandadzt’ 61vb31.
12. (i) Lenition of t is commonly found in prep. and particle ‘ad’,
e.g. 21rb28, 24rb23, 47ra25, 55va23, and the n. article suffixed or
freestanding, e.g. ‘treid’, ‘fræid’ 22vbl8, ‘hid’, ‘ed’, ‘id’, e.g. 24vbl6,
32ra30, 41vb4, 46ral2, 36val0, 41vb3, 5; occasionally in ‘huad’, e.g.
33rb9, 41vb8, 45val8, pron. ‘þid’, 62vb20, 67rbl8. Supines are often
in (d>, e.g. ‘sed’ 33rb20, ‘fyrirspaad’ 41vb9, nad 41vb37, and espe-
cially, but not regularly, after a stem in t, e.g. ‘bitid’, ‘brotid’, Tvtid’,
‘latid’, ‘ritad’, but e.g. ‘ROtatt’ 62rb32, ‘bitit’ 62rb35. There are similar
signs of preference for (t> after a stem in ð, e.g. ‘trodit’, ‘ordit’