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and <þ>, with some variation after <s>, cf. e.g. ‘Swia’ 36/7, ‘sva’ 7/1,
12/25,28/70,38/1.
(vii) Analogical initial v is most probably indicated in ‘wnnit’ 15/33
and ‘wrðu’, the latter found eight times in Js. (2/14, 6/21, 22, 25, 28,
21/4, 36/1, 37/25) against three exx. of ‘vrðu’ (23/2, 28/54, 28/60); the
proportion in the Þs. text appears to be similar. <uo>/<vo> is general in
past. part. forms of verða - the only exception noted in Js. is ‘ordin’
31/32 - and the initial sonant occurs in the pret. subj. of the same verb,
‘uyrdi’, e.g. Þs. 179/14, 195/10, 205/34. Other instances are ‘wpð’
(vaða) 12/6; ‘vorpit’ 12/26 (cf. ‘orpinn’ Þs. 195/6).
(viii) Initial v in compounded -veg remains unassimilated in ‘ein-
ueg’ 33/9, ‘huemueg’ 45/10, ‘þannueg’ Þs. 186/39; it is assimilated in
‘oðru(m) megum’ 28/73, 74.
6. (i) y is normally written <y>, always so in yfir, in fyr(r) and fyrri
(when these are written out) and, with one exception, in fyrir, usually
abbreviated ‘f’ with a superscript curl but written out as ‘fyri’ 12/44,
‘fyrir’ 21/29, 24/30, Þs. 186/1, 188/1. The exception is ‘for/r’ 13/16,
paralleled in Hand A 2/25 (see II 6) and there explained as a possible
dittography, an explanation which however cannot apply in the pre-
sent case. The forms ‘for’ and ‘fore’ appear in Norwegian charters in
the third quarter of the fourteenth century,21 but they are unlikely to be
relevant to this spelling in Hand B.
(ii) In forms of þykkja the vowel y is unrounded to / throughout. It
remains in -þykki as the second element in compounds ‘samþycki’,
‘sundrþycki’.
7. (i) æ is usually written <æ>. It also occasionally appears as <q>,
e.g. ‘d?ma’ 12/18, ‘h?rra’ 20/2, ‘lgtr’ 22/46, ‘g?ti’ 26/3; unmarked <e>
is probably inadvertent in ‘ventum’ 21/34, ‘efuinar’ Þs. 194/44.
(ii) æ written as <q>, <ð>, <0>, <Q> is not uncommon, e.g. ‘vþn’ 5/19,
‘sqIí’ 4/1, ‘s§liga’ Þs. 204/13, ‘SQmundr’ 16/30, ‘Sþmundar-’ 43/2,
Misc. 59ra23, ‘þðr’ 39/1, Misc. 60rb30, ‘heilrQði’ Þs. 180/9,
‘embQttis’ Þs. 195/7, ‘kostgQfir’ Þs. 197/32. These spellings are par-
ticularly frequent in forms of older bœr and sœmilig(-), and are attest-
ed elsewhere in words with ó as the root vowel, though they were evi-
dently not differentiated in the scribe’s pronunciation, e.g. ‘vhQfu-
ersku’ 4/9, ‘sQckia’ 5/28, ‘b§n’ Þs. 181/4, ‘tQki’ 45/24, ‘sötare’ Þs.
206/42. A diacritic mark was probably omitted in ‘somiliga’ 24/24, a
21
Seip, Sprákhistorie, 246, 331.