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INTRODUCTION
elsewhere short k is written (k) and (ck) without apparent discrimina-
tion: ‘teckit’/'tekit’, ‘Danmorck’/‘Danmork’, ‘bockina’/‘bokina’, ‘bæckr’/
‘bækr’, ‘diackn’/'diakn’, ‘mecktugra’/‘mektugir’, ‘mackligt’/ ‘makligt’.
(iii) Long k is similarly written (ck> and (kk> without distinction:
‘nockura’/'nokkura’, ‘geck’/‘gekk’. Long k is not simplified in forms
of þykkja.
(iv) No spelling reflects palatalisation of k before e, æ.
(v) The only exx. noted of final (g> for k in weak stressed monosyl-
lables are ‘þig’, ‘sigh’ 14/33, 15/37.
9. (i) (11) is written before d\ exceptions are insignificant, ‘uilda ek’
15/7, ‘Amhaldz’ Misc. 59va20, ‘sialdann’ Þs. 187/20, and at line-ends
with or without word-division, 48val6, 52ra26, 54ra4, 55va34. Pret.
forms of selja and hvíla are written with (lld), as are ‘uesolld(-)’ 26/8,
30/21,40/29, ‘uinsællda’ Þs. 182/11.
(ii) Single (1> is written before d from older ö in ‘fioldi’, ‘dualdi’,
‘taldi’, ‘skildi’ and so on; an isolated exception is ‘vallði’ 27/7 (‘valdi’
24/11, 21).
(iii) (11) is written before t, with rare exceptions, ‘hal/ti’ 47/14 (line-
division), ‘Hialta’ Misc. 59ral9, 59rb7. The third pret. sg. of mæla is
usually abbreviated ‘mti’ or ‘mlti’, but ‘möte’ occurs in 17/21 and it is
written out ‘mællti’ 16/19; past part. ‘mæltt’ is however found in Þs.
185/25. In Bysk.s. ‘sktu’, Þs. 185/24, 194/42, 205/19, is once expand-
ed as ‘skalltu’, twice as ‘skaltu’; ‘þu skallt’ at Þs. 185/22 suggests the
former spelling is the likelier.
(iv) (11) is regular in fullting, lítillátr, lítillæti. Final / is omitted in
‘tung’ 17/6, presumably inadvertently. On ‘vil’ in the third pres. sg. of
vilja see VIII 7 (iv).
(v) rl assimilation is seen in ‘kallar’ 27/21, and apparent in (rll>
spellings elsewhere, ‘karll(-)’ 25/45, 46, 28/2, Messusk. 110/25,
‘illferlli’ 26/10, ‘varlla’ 34/12, 48/12, ‘Jarll(-)’ Þs. 200/6, 201/17.
10. Single (m> is written in ‘fram’, ‘frami’; ‘fimt-’; ‘grim-’; ‘skams’
6/9, ‘skamt’ 12/9, ‘skemrvm’ 20/11, cf. ‘skammrar’ 24/8, 32/1.
‘Skama’ 25/1 is probably an error, cf. ‘skamma’ 24/1, 24/17, ‘skomm-
um’ 25/28, 44/6.
11. (i) The distribution of (n>/(nn> is for the most part conventional.
Long n is simplified before d, t, z (5), e.g. ‘kendi’, ‘kent’, ‘mintiz’,
‘fanz’, ‘skinz’, ‘manz’. ‘sanre’ occurs at 14/34 but ‘sannre’ 33/18, 21,
‘sinum’ at 25/22 but ‘sinnum’ 25/24. It is sometimes written (n> in