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INTRODUCTION
31va31-32, ‘vordit’ 27vb4, but the old <t) ending is generally in evi-
dence. <t> for ð in second person pl. verb forms and in nouns in -að is
commonplace.
(ii) <th) spellings are also common for t (or ð, cf. 5 above); e.g.
‘athburd(-)’ 22val5,45val4, ‘æthléra’ 38ra23, ‘ath’ (prep. and particle)
55va2, 5, 68vb31, ‘Þath’ 42va24, ‘biorthu’ 24va31, ‘matthi’ 25ral8,
‘andlath’ 28rbl7, ‘ortho’ 41rbl3, ‘verith’ 24ra2, ‘hafnath’ 54ra24.
13. The suffix -lig(-) is written with <i) and <e), indifferently as it
seems. -ind(-), -end(-) and -ynd(-) are all found, again on no apparent
principle.
14. Some assimilations in clusters are frequently reflected in
spelling. Exx. are the loss (i) of d in ‘tuefalliga’ 21vbl, ‘auduelliga’
30ral4, 49va29-30, ‘hol(l)gadizt’ 44va9, 14, ‘verallig(-)’ 44va36,
45ra30, 65va32, ‘milligt’ 65rb38; ‘annmarka’ 19val8, ‘aufunsemi’
45va8; (ii) of g in ‘fylsnum’ 67ra7; (iii) of / in ‘mioklig’ 43ra25; (iv)
of r in e.g. ‘stafkallar’ 33ral8-19, ‘jalls’ 49vb5, ‘jallinn’ 57ra5-6;
‘Rom veskrar’ 50ra28 (cf. ‘liknerski’ 55va3, 8, 56ral8, beside Tiknesk-
it’ 55val0 and ‘himnersku’ 57rb 11-12); ‘fyst(-)’, e.g. 19vbl7, 22ra2,
24rb2, 27rb30; ‘Þosteinn’ 32vb8; (v) of t in ‘freisni’ 58ra35, 65va35,
and almost always in syncopated forms of adj. kristinn, subst. kristni
and vb. kristna, e.g. 34vb27, 36vbl5, 38vb33, 49rbl4, 56ra30, 39ral,
40vb37, 44vb27.
15. The scribe writes both ‘huspreyia’ and ‘husfreyia’, ‘iartein’ and
‘iartegn’, this last about three times as often as ‘iartein’. Gen. offaðir
appears as ‘födr’, ‘fodr’ 23vb23, 34rbl7, but ‘fedrs’ and ‘fédrs’
23vbl9,39ra36.
16. There are rare exx. of restored analogical endings in adjs. in s:
‘endalavsri’ 20va28, ‘ymissra’ 41va32, ‘skynlausrar’ 41va33.
17. Acc. n. of tveir is ‘tuo’ 48va27; dat. ‘tueim’ 19val2; “twice” is
‘tysuar’ 36ral5 but ‘tysar’ 35rbl0, 62ral0. Dat. of þrír is ‘þrimur’
19vbl4. “Seven” is ‘siö’ in 26va20, cf. ‘siötvgh’ 27rb24. Acc. pl.
‘-tighi’ is found in 20rb32, 23ral0, pl. ‘hundrut’ in 20rb31.
18. The f. pron. is almost always ‘hun’, sometimes abbreviated ‘hv’;
‘hón’ has been noted in 20vbl2 and the abbreviation ‘h°’ 24ral9, 21,
45va28. Gen. pron. yðar and forms of poss. adj. yð(v)arr seem
nowhere to be written with medial <v)/<u).
19. The neg. prefix is written both <o) and <u>, appearing in rough-
ly equal numbers. Forms of the neg. pron. and adj. are in <eing),