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INTRODUCTION
16. (i) t has become ð in the dual pron. vit, e.g. 14/38, 16/24, 26, 28,
30, 32 (erroneously viðr 16/25). Particle at and interr. hvat are spelt
‘at’ and ‘huat’ respectively; cf. pret. sg. ‘kuat’ 10/23, Misc. 59va26,
Þs. 180/12.
(ii) <t) is usually written finally in past parts. but there are numerous
instances of final <ð)/<d), e.g. ‘farið’, ‘talað’, ‘vafið’, ‘opnað’, more
especially when the stem ends in t, e.g. ‘getið’, ‘slitið’, Teitað’, ‘setið’,
‘brotið’; and similarly after vowel stems, e.g. ‘séét’, ‘misset’, ‘spat’,
but also ‘seeð’, ‘isaað’, ‘naað’.
(iii) <ð)/<d) is written sporadically for earlier t in sg. n. forms of ad-
jectives and the suffixed article, most commonly in Titið’ but also e.g.
in ‘heitið’, ‘alltareð’, ‘okið’, ‘maalið’, ‘vatnið’. The sg. n. of annarr is
‘annat’, of nokkurr ‘nokkut’, but the latter appears as ‘nockuð’ at e.g.
26/15, 29/3.
(iv) <t> for ð appears in ‘hundrat’ 10/19, 27/16, and ‘hofut’ is com-
mon alongside ‘hofud’.
(v) <t) for ð is frequent in second pers. pl. verb endings, e.g. ‘ættlit’,
‘rækit’, ‘hugsit’, ‘erut’, ‘dæmit’, ‘gafut’, ‘megit’, ‘vegsamit’.
(vi) In monosyllables final t after / and r is often written <tt>, e.g.
‘alltt’, ‘fylltt’, ‘helltt’, ‘sælltt’, ‘martt’, ‘stortt’, ‘spurtt’, ‘skyrtt’. This
spelling occurs after other consonants but much less commonly, e.g.
‘haftt’, ‘loptt’, ‘sagtt’, ‘þyktt’, ‘dæmtt’, ‘kentt’.
(vii) Medially before / and n the spelling <tt> is found especially in
forms of ‘ættla’, ‘Rittning-’, ‘settning-’; and occasionally in other
words, e.g. ‘littlu’, ‘sættlig’, ‘þrættne’, ‘mettnadar’, ‘battnadi’.
(viii) Adv. brott(u) is always with <tt), as are the verb játta (-aði)
and subst. játtari. Subst. ‘þrottinn’ 46/8 is anomalous (elsewhere
‘þrot-’).
(ix) The sg. n. comparative of adj. bættr is ‘bætra’ 11/10. <t) never
appears in the word hvár(t)ki. tt is occasionally and doubtless inadver-
tently written <t), ‘haatum’ Þs. 183/36, ‘letazst’ (= superl. adv. léttast)
Þs. 201/21.
17. <x> is found in accordance with conventional spelling in forms
of vaxa, (á)vöxtr, in numerals and Latin quotation, and in proper
names, Saxland, Oxi, Alexius. There is no instance of its use to express