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<aung> (noted first on fol. 23v) and <eyng) (noted first on fol. 31r).
Nom. m. and f. pron. and adj. ‘eing(h)in’ is a usual form beside
‘eingi’, e.g. at 29ra9, 29ra30, 55rbl3, 58vb23. Gen. sg. m. and n. is
variously ‘einkis’ 50ra39, 68val6, ‘eingis’ 68val, 17, ‘einskiz’ (see
11 above).
20. A weak declined article is found with a demonstrative in ‘Af
þessi env gaufgu drott(n)ingh’ 52ra33, but isolated in ‘nema enu
smæRÍ afgerdir’ 41vb21 and ‘hann tok enu efztu sott’ 48ra31.
21. Rel. ‘ed’ has been noted twice, the exx. close together:
‘Ha/gustinus hafdi þa ví vetur ok xx eda víj ed hann ritadi ... ’ 43rb37-
val; ‘sa ed Faustne (sic) het’ 43val3.
22. (i) The only third person form that has been noted in the first
person is subj. ‘at ek þuai’ 39ra20-21; the indic. for a subj. ending is
found in ‘þot vær kendum’ 56rb27.
(ii) Second person sg. ‘villt’ is usual, though ‘vill’ occurs. An iso-
lated ex. is second person sg. ‘tokzt’ 27ra32, but whether it should be
taken as a very early instance of the development of t to st in this in-
flexion is open to doubt.
(iii) Sg. imp. forms include ‘Vert þu’ 38vb24, ‘vært þu’ 54rbl8,
‘skunt þu’ 57rbl0, ‘Heyrð þu’ 25vb21.
(iv) Analogical initial v is found in ‘vöx’, ‘vvxv’ 55va5, 65rb2,
54va34; commonly in the past part. of verða, e.g. in 27vb4, 40val9,
46ra37, 65ra5, 65vb6; and in ‘volltinn’ 23rb29.
(v) The middle voice ending is usually <zt>, occasionally <z>;
<zk> has been noted in ‘giorzk’ 29vbl6, <stz> in ‘fysumstz’ 40vb9,
and <s> in ‘audladis’ 21rb22, ‘veittis’ 49rbl3. There are also compara-
tively many <st) endings, very few of them in monosyllabic forms:
‘gnægdist’ 21rbl2, ‘syndist’ 21va5, 24ral5-16, 24rb2, 44va25,
‘þottist’ 23ra9, ‘avdlast’ 23vb20, 38vb26-27, ‘blandast’ 25ra25-26,
‘þocnadist’ 26vbl2-13, ‘leysast’ 28rb25, Teyndist’ 30rb26, ‘stadfest-
ast’ 30vb24, ‘snerist’ 31vb9, ‘hælast’ 36rb34, Taukst’ 39ral4, ‘reidd-
ist’ 40va21, ‘breytast’ 41rbl6, ‘sagdist’ 43vbl, ‘tæmist’ 44rb29,
‘skammast’ 44vb20, ‘bvast’ 46rb24, ‘styrkiast’ 47rb27, ‘hvilast’
47vbl7, ‘hreinsast’ 57rb35, ‘barst’ 57val8, ‘brást’ 61va32, ‘biost’
65vb26.
23. (i) Neg. adv. eigi is abbreviated ‘e” and ‘æ1’; ‘ei’ is not uncom-
mon, e.g. 21vbl6, 43rb28, 47rb35, 53va31, 61rb23, 63vbll. Adv.
forms ‘alldri’ and ‘alldregi’ occur in about equal numbers.