Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.06.2003, Side 187
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6. (i) Initial gl has been noted only once, ‘eptir glikiarar’ Þs. 180/11.
Initial gn is found once in Js. ‘gnógliga’ 24/38 (elsewhere ‘nog-’,
‘nægð’), twice in Þs. ‘ugnogann’ 179/9, ‘gnægri’ 180/5.
(ii) <gh) for g in intervocalic and final positions is common but its
incidence is sporadic, e.g. ‘-ligha(r)’, ‘-lighe’, ‘daghinn’, ‘Ejghi’, ‘hagh-
aztr’, ‘wigh’, Togh’, ‘nogh’, ‘vaagh’; similarly in compounded ele-
ments, e.g. ‘daghþing-’, ‘hoghbærum’; and finally after r in ‘morgh’.
It occurs before n in ‘frasaghnar’, ‘iarteighna’, exceptionally before sl
in ‘vighslunum’, Þs. 181/25, and before inflectional endings, ‘daghr’,
‘daghs’, ‘Noreghs’, ‘saghtt’, ‘Raadlight’. <gh) spellings are noticeably
fewer in the Þs. text.
(iii) Palatalisation of g between a front high vowel and vowel or semi-
vowel i/j is reflected in acc. sg. f. ‘nygia’ 43/7, dat. sg. n. ‘nygiu’ Þs.
191/41 (cf. ‘nyia’, e.g. Þs. 182/16, ‘nyiu’ Þs. 204/9). ‘hnegia’ Þs. 179/22
might suggest the same but may well be a simple error.
(iv) On g from older k, see 8 (v) below.
(v) gt is expressed as <kt> in e.g. ‘kunnickt’ 31/5, Tankt’ 45/23,
‘-lickt(t)’ 5/27, 6/5, Þs. 196/25-26; past parts. of segja, fylgja are
‘sakt’, 34/4, ‘fylkt’ Þs. 195/47.
(vi) Usual unvoicing of g to k is apparent in ‘almattkann’, ‘al-
maattkum’; cf. ‘almaattighann’ 47/9.
(vii) g is regularly omitted in sg. n. of margr (‘mart’). There are
three instances of its omission in the word vígsla: ‘vislu’ 8/1, ‘uislu’
Misc. 59rb35, ‘uislur’ Þs. 181/24.
(viii) No spelling evidences palatalisation of g before e, æ.
7. (i) The word hlutr is frequently used; of 55 exx. collected from
Js. only four are in <hl). Other words show greater vacillation between
<hl> and <1>, with the former more common than the latter: e.g. ‘liop’
47/3, 4, Taupinn’ 45/32 (‘hliop’ 12/38, 47/2, ‘-hleypi’ 14/27); Tyða’
28/3, Tydði’ 24/33, 26/24, ‘lyddu’ Þs. 206/42 (‘hlytt’ 30/18, ‘hlioð(-)’
28/30, 31); Tyðni’ 26/27, 28/25; Tytr’ 12/29.
(ii) No initial <n> for hn occurs but there a few exx. of <r>/<R> for hr.
‘rið’ 18/16, ‘ræraz’ 40/22, ‘Rein(-)’ Þs. 189/16, 195/2, ‘Rosadi’ Þs.
196/21, ‘Ringia’ Messusk. 108/16, ‘Rygg(-)’ 47/8, Þs. 207/6.
(iii) h is lost in ‘uarygdar’ 45/17, ‘Ragneidi’ Þs. 183/34, ‘aalog(h)a’
Þs. 190/28, 200/9, ‘munzsöfn’ Þs. 192/12.
8. (i) Initial kn is regular in the words kné, knífr, knútr.
(ii) <k> is standard in initial positions (cf. however VII 2 above), but