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INTRODU CTION
(iii) On ‘Tryggia’ for Tryggva see VIII 11 (iii) below. On i in forms
of þykkja see 6 (ii).
4. (i) Short o is not infrequently marked, more often as <q) than as
<ó> (the marks are combined in ‘br^ttu’ 10/37) and more often in
monosyllables and open syllables than in closed syllables. Not many
words are involved: ‘qk’; <q) and <ð) in forms of son, kostr, kona,
koma and stofa\ ‘þgla’, ‘bqðorð-’; ‘Nörð-’, ‘-skðtz’, ‘gðtt’, ‘Kqll-’,
‘Qdda’, ‘-qrð’, ‘-krpssi’, ‘-hqllti’; see e.g. 14/33, 5/2, 6/19, 15/10,
16/12, 16/14, 17/22, 23/18, 37/3. It may be noted that marked <o) oc-
curs only once in the word nokkurr: nom. sg. m. ‘nQckur’ 9/10; cf.
VIII 4 (v) below.
(ii) Long o is marked comparatively often as <ó), <ð) and <q>: in
forms of dómr, bók, Jón, and in closed syllables mostly before st and
tt, see e.g. 12/19, 5/24, 10/4, 25/48, 6/10, 27/17, 23/1, 4/2; forms of
fóstr 7/2, brjóst 24/34, of the pret. of þykkja 6/3, 7/5, 35/11 and of
sœkja 24/46, of ótti 24/45, 26/23, of sótt 19/2,40/2, of nótt 17/3, 14, of
íþrótt 16/35, 17/28; ‘dóttur’ 5/16, ‘skiót-’ 17/9. Cf. e.g. ‘stQll’ 19/34,
‘Qslo’ 6/24, ‘Nidar Qse’ 19/16.
In rare instances long o is indicated by both accent and hook:
‘bQlstað’ 6/4, ‘nþgu’ 25/56, ‘kQmu’ 29/14, ‘ÍQÖr’ 32/13, ‘uQttar’ 35/2,
‘Quorðnum’ 41/6.
(iii) A Latin abl. ending is marked in ‘legatQ’ 19/16; cf. a dat. end-
ing in ‘TitQ’ Þs. 203/36.
(iv) On privative prefix ó see 5 (iii).
5. (i) As an initial vowel both <u) and <v) are found; the only exx. noted
of <w> as initial vowel are ‘Wlfs’ 8/4, ‘wpp’ 10/20 (cf. (vii) below).
(ii) In medial and final positions <u) is usually written, occasionally
<v> or <o>; cf. 12 and 14 below. The spellings ‘hofdö’ 35/21, ‘konQr’
Þs. 184/12, are exceptional.
(iii) The ratio of <o> to <u>/<v> as the privative prefix is about 3 : 1
in Js. and Misc. In Þs. it is about 3 : 2. Prep. ór is always written ‘or’,
except once ‘vr’ 42/7.
(iv) As an initial sonant the scribe writes <u), <v) and <w). The last
is particularly common in abbreviated ‘war', ‘wer\ ‘woru’ but found
also e.g. in ‘waars’ 8/5, 'wám’ 9/6, ‘weghit’ 10/13, ‘wigh’ 10/15,
‘widir’ 10/24. In Misc. and Þs. initial <w> is rare.
(v) As an intervocalic sonant v is occasionally written <f>: ‘háifan’
13/4, and compounded ‘vaafeifi’ 46/5. It is lost in ‘Þyersku’ 19/19.
(vi) In medial positions <u) is usual after <d)/<ð), <h), <k>, <s>, <t>