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INTRODUCTION
comparative of adj. hár appear respectively as ‘hyrra’ 20/2 and ‘hæRe’
Þs. 181/33, with n. as adv. ‘hæRa’ Þs. 186/35. Adj. nor(r)œnn only oc-
curs with single <r), 11/11, 12/12, 25/24.
(v) When intervocalic in trisyllabic forms <r) normally appears to
stand for rr, e.g. ‘annaRÍ’ 17/5, 27/6, ‘annaRa’ 20/21, 21/21, 48/4 -cf.
‘annarre’ 18/17; ‘nockuRe’, ‘nockuRÍ’, e.g. 9/4, 19 - cf. ‘nokkurre’
18/17, 24/40; gen. sg. f. is however ‘nocknrar’ 48/6-7 t.n., gen. pl.
‘nokkvra’ Þs. 199/15 beside ‘nokknrra’ 45/8; ‘þessaRar’, ‘þessaRÍ’,
e.g. 13/16, 24/9, 4/9 - cf. ‘þessarre’ 5/12.
(vi) Final <r> in monosyllables is common in third sg. ‘fæR’ and oc-
curs for example in second sg. ‘slæR’ 4/12. Third sg. of fara and sjá
appear variously as ‘fer’, ‘ferr’, ‘fcrR’, ‘ser', ‘scrr’, ‘serR’; third sg. of
deyja is ‘deyrr’ 10/26. Nom. sg. f. is ‘kyrr’ 45/30. Nom. sg. m. is usu-
ally written ‘hucr’ but occurs as ‘hueR’ at e.g. 28/15. Adv.jyrr usually
appears as ‘fyR’ «r> sometimes dotted), ‘fyrr’; ‘fyr’ is rare, noted at
14/24, 38/14, 46/4, Þs. 194/44. Nom. sg. m. adj. varr appears as ‘vér’
22/31; kærr as ‘kæR’ 6/11, 25/44; poss. adj. nom. sg. m. as ‘wír’ 11/3,
‘váR’ 28/38. Nom. sg. m. hvár(r) is ‘hvaiR’, ‘huæR’ 16/11, 18/2, cf.
‘huörr’ 12/23.
(vii) Final <r> is most often written in disyllabic forms but matched
by rarer forms in <r>: ‘annaR’, ‘nockuR’, ‘sidaR’, ‘framaR’, but ‘annar’
29/12, ‘npckur’ 9/10, ‘sidar’ 27/11, ‘framar’ 16/1. The name Einar(r)
is written ‘EinaR’ 46/2, ‘Enar’ 15/34. On the other hand, nom. Gizurr
is regularly written ‘Gíszur’, once ‘Giszvrr’ 36/3; the acc. is ‘Giszur’
19/18, 20/3.
(viii) (ij is written regularly after <b>, usually but not invariably af-
ter <d> «ð», <þ>, <g>, and irregularly after <p>. It is usual after <h> in
initial ///'-; herra is abbreviated as both ‘hra’ and ‘hui’; it occurs final-
ly in ‘daghi’ Misc. 58val4. In the Jóns saga text there are isolated
exx. after <f>, <k> and <1>: ‘hædi’ 51rb6, ‘akæ’ 53vb36, ‘elhe’ 54vbl3.
It is regular after <o> and its modified forms; usual but not exclusively
so after <u>, <v>, <w> and <y>; frequent after <a>, <aa>; an isolated ex.
after <i> has been noted in ‘hktinga’ 53va32 (‘hirtingar’ 53vb30). In
Misc. it is found after small capital initials of proper names in <A>, <B>,
<G>, <H>, see e.g. 59ra8, 10, 59va20, 59rb7, 12, 60rb4, 59rb32; and in
‘Pæstr’ 60rbl.
(ix) On assimilated rl, rs see 9 (v) above, 15 (vi) below.
15. (i) Initial <í> is the rule, though <s> (sometimes <s» may be used to