Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.06.2003, Blaðsíða 175
THE L RECENSION
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‘faghrligha’; after r in ‘morghum’; before / in compounds ‘hugh-
leiddu’, ‘heilaghleicks’, ‘aughlite’; before n only in the word ‘fra-
soghn’ (4 exx.) and before s only in ‘heilaghs’ and ‘fulltinghs’. Final
gt is spelt (ckt) in ‘kunnickt’ 1/14.
4. Initial h is written <h) in ‘hrein(-)’, ‘hrgddum’, ‘hlid’.
5. k is written <k) in initial positions and in the combination <sk);
elsewhere it is regularly written <ck), e.g. ‘einckannligha’, ‘munckr’,
‘uerck’, ‘myrckr’, ‘táickn’, ‘lickia’, ‘sick’, ‘tacka’; conj. ok is written
out once as ‘Ock’, once as ‘ok’. The only word on 48r with long k is
also written with <ck>, ‘ecke’ 2/23. Final k is written <ck) in e.g.
‘miock’.
6. <11) is written in ‘fullting(-)’ and regularly so before d and t
(‘helldr’, ‘Haralldr’; ‘gsnialltt’, ‘Skaalhollt’), but <1) before d from old-
er ð, ‘ualdr’ 3/10.
7. Single <m> is written in ‘fram’.
8. Long n is commonly indicated in the acc. sg. m. adjectival end-
ing, e.g. ‘haaleitann’, ‘olistughann’, ‘elskulighann’, and similarly in
‘en/í’, conj. Both <n) and <nn) are written in ‘einckan(n)lig-\ Dat.
‘miskun’ is found at 3/14.
9. Long p is written <{p>. Only <pt> is found in words like eptir,
gipta, kraptr, p is written double in ‘krappt-’ 1/11, 17; cf. ‘kraapt-’
1/18.
10. Small capital <r) is used sparingly as a graphic variant, initially
in e.g. ‘Rocksamligha’, ‘Recki’, ‘Reed’, abbr. ‘mkis\ finally in poss.
adj. nom. sg. m. ‘váR’ 1/2. </> is used freely but not regularly; it is
found after <a>, <a>, <aa>, <b>, <ö)/<ð>, <f), <g>, <h>, <i>, <1>, <o> (and its
modified forms), <p>, <u>, <w> (‘w/du’), <y>, <þ> and <æ). On </> for ur
see 16 below. Single <r> is found in gen. ‘fioghura’ 2/13.
11. <f> and <s> occur initially in a ratio of about 5 : 2; <s) is mainly
found before <i> and <y>. Finally <s> and <f> appear in a ratio of about
1 : 2; <s> is of course regular in abbr. ‘bps’, ‘kgs’, ‘hs’. <s> is only used
for long 5 in abbr. ‘þs’, ‘þsi’, ‘þsa’; cf. the more common ‘þff’, ‘þff’,
‘þffa’. <ff> may be written finally after e- and /-, ‘Johanneff’, ‘eptir-
dæmiff’, ‘SNemmendiff’, and occurs once after r (assimilated?) in ‘Mf-
ge/rff’.
12. t is occasionally written <tt> before / and n, ‘biarttligha’, ‘hittni’,
finally after / and r, ‘gsnialltt’, ‘g/ortt’. Adv. hraut has the form ‘brott’.
See also 1 above.