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compounded elements, ‘Gunlaugr’ 28/38 (‘Gunn-’ 24/19), ‘Ranueigh’
48/1, ‘Insigle’ 22/7, ‘sanliga’ 39/39, but these may be lapses similar to
those found in ‘keningum’ 24/27, 28/3, ‘áiminingum’ 31/26, words
that occur comparatively often and elsewhere always with <nn>. The
word einkanliga is written both ‘einkan-’ and ‘einkann-’.
(ii) As conj. and after a comparative en is frequently written ‘en«’
or ‘enn’; adv. enn may appear as ‘en’, e.g. 14/20, 17/18.
(iii) The ending -an in adverbs and acc. sg. m. adjectives is often
written with <nn>, e.g. ‘samann’, ‘medann’, ‘sælann’, ‘lærdann’, ‘all-
ann’, ‘lidugann’. This spelling is not found in f. substantives in -an.
(iv) But the suffixed article -inn and the final -inn of past. part. adject-
ives are often written <in>, e.g. ‘fioturin’, ‘elldrin’, ‘dagin’, ‘fiandin’,
‘þrotin’ (subst.), ‘buin’; similarly in the neg. pron. nom. sg. m. ‘engin’
26/2, 21, but ‘e(i)nginn’ 11/19, 21/14, 26/16, 18, 28/31. Adv. ‘in’ for inn
14/31 andnom. sg. f. ‘Iorðinn’ 32/11 are however exceptional.
(v) Nom. proper names Auðun and Ingun are written with single
<n>. Nom. and dat. ‘miskunn’ appear at 37/26, 41/1, Þs. 183/38, dat.
and acc. ‘miskun’ at 31/10, 31/37; the gen. is always ‘miskunnar’.
12. <pt> is regularly written in aptann, aptr, eptir, gröptr, lopt, opt,
skript, but not in words with/in the stem except past part. ‘hapt’ Þs.
205/23. The loan-word tykta, typta, tyfta is written with <ft> at 4/9.
13. <q> is found only in Latin quotation.
14. (i) Nom. -r is lost, usually in ‘son’, whether in a patronymic or
freestanding, but ‘sonr guðs’ occurs at Þs. 191/43; in ‘vin’ 15/5, 6; in
adj. ‘van’, Þs. 186/6, 196/13; exceptionally in ‘Teit’ 10/28, ‘prest’
14/54.
(ii) The scribe tends to prefer <r> to <r> in initial positions. On fols.
55r-56r, for example, there are eight instances of initial <r> against
four of <r>, and in Þs. initial <r> appears to be the rule. With super-
script <‘> it is found in abbreviated ‘riki'.
(iii) <r> is also found medially as a graphic variant, particularly
though not invariably in ‘eRki(-)’.
(iv) When intervocalic in disyllabic forms <r> (sometimes dotted) =
rr in e.g. ‘fyRÍ’ 6/29, 38/8, ‘svaRÍ’ 10/26, ‘uaRar’ 39/13, 45/26, dat. sg.
f. ‘váiRe’ 6/7; but more often forms are written out with <rr>, e.g.
‘fyrre’ 18/16, ‘þyrre’ 40/3, nom. pl. f. ‘kyrrar’ 39/13, gen. pl. ‘storra’
11/10. Nom. pl. f. of the comparative of adj. smár is ‘smærre’ Þs.
181/27, dat. pl. ‘smæRum’ Þs. 181/30; acc. sg. m. and acc. pl. m. of the